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Copying and Pasting in Vim
In Vim, copying is commonly refered to as 'yanking', and pasting remains the same.
Command Keys
The keys used for yanking and pasting in Vim are:
x
to delete a charactery
to yankp
to put/paste after cursorP
to put/paste before cursorpp
to put/past a whole lined
to cutdd
to cut a whole line"
to cut or yank to a register
Copying
To yank or cut, type y
or d
, followed by a 'text object'. These describe how much text should be yanked or deleted. For example, yw
copies one word and d$
deletes from the cursor to the end of the line. They can also both be used in visual mode, pressing v
and moving the cursor and then pressing d
deletes all text inside of the selection.
Registers
A register is just another name for clipboard. But unlike other text editors, Vim has many of such "clipboards".
To yank or delete to a register, type "<register name><command>
(e.g.: "ayw
to [y]ank [w]ord to register a
). Register names can be only one character long for obvious reasons ("m
,"M
, "3
are allowed, but "mr
, "MyReg
, "MyRegisterName
are not). The default register that is stored to when no register is specified is "
and the system clipboard that can be accessed in other programs is +
. You can also use lower case characters to access registers and use upper case characters to append to registers. For example "dyy
copies the current line to the d
register, typing "D3yw
copies the next 3 words and adds them to what is already stored in d
.
Pasting
Pasting can be done in normal mode or in insert mode. In normal mode:
p
pastes after the cursorP
pastes before the cursorgp
pastes after the cursor and moves the cursor to the end of the pastegP
pastes before the cursor and moves the cursor to the end of the paste
In insert mode type Ctrl-r
to paste and then type a register, normally "
, this will paste from that register where the cursor is and move the cursor to after the paste.