Master Vim Registers for Advanced Copy & Pasting
We all know programmers who, when they need to copy/paste more than one thing, just use a temporary window to keep track of the copied data. Well vim has that feature solved.
First off, we have multiple copy/paste buffers, known as registers. So I can copy and paste three different things into three different registers. To copy a line to register a, use “ayy. Then to paste that line you would use “ap.
If you want to view what’s currently in all your registers do :reg
You can also copy text into any of the numeric registers like so: “0yy or “1yy and so on. You can paste it with “0p or “1p and so on as well.
What if you want to copy a bunch of stuff into one register? Well, first I would clear it with :let @a = ”, but that’s not required. Anyway, you can add to a register by using “Ayy. This will copy the current line onto “a. So you can do this over and over to add to the “a register!::
But that requires too much work. Yesterday I wanted to add all lines with the word “name” into “a. Here is how I can do that with one line: :g/name/y A.
Awesome!
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