Friday, April 30, 2010

Re: Yank range ?

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:46 PM, sc <toothpik@swbell.net> wrote:
> On Friday 30 April 2010 9:17:57 pm stosss wrote:
>
>> I went to :he y and I see:
>> :[range]y[ank] [x]    Yank [range] lines [into register x].
>>
>> so I do:
>> :'y,'zy"c
>>
>> It did not give me an error, but when I type:
>>
>> "cP
>>
>> I don't get what I yanked.
>>
>> What I am doing wrong?
>> What register is my yanked text in?
>
> i think it'll be in the un-named register (")

Yes typing P dumped my text into the file.

> i think what you wanted to do was
>
>    :'y,'zyc

This produced the E492 error

So how does range yank into a named register work?

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