Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Re: Can you override the deletion register when pasting from visual mode?

On 4/05/11 11:35 PM, Andrew Neil wrote:
> Is there any way to prevent the default register from being clobbered
> when using the paste command in visual mode?
>
> By default, when you use the `p` or `P` commands in visual mode, the
> selected text overwrites the default register. Is there any way that
> you can instruct Vim to write that text to another register?

Not directly. To do that, you'd have to use separate delete and put
commands. I suppose you could probably make a mapping. It could become a
bit complicated dealing with edge cases, but I suppose you could make it
work with a bit of effort. Maybe some wizard will chip in....

Smiles,

Ben.

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