> 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?
Answering my own question.
This is the correct way:
:'y,'zy c
There has to be a space between yank and the register.
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