Re: basic vim usage

On 11/08/12 05:23, vicky b wrote:
> I have started to learn vim in this modern enviroment where gui
> takes prefers , one thing that still me back to other editors is
> the ease with which we can copy and paste , can anybody help me
> out with safe effect in vim or any thing of that sort

As others have mentioned, you might want to go through the vimtutor
that is available when vim is installed.

However, it's helpful to know that the "y"ank, "d"elete, "c"hange,
and "s"ubstitute commands all alter the contents of "registers".
The p/P commands are used to paste contents of those registers in
Normal mode, and (as mentioned elsewhere, control+R can be used to
insert register contents in Insert mode). These are lots of
registers in vim, unlike Windows and Mac, where you usually only
have one system clipboard. By default Vim operates on the unnamed
register, so when you yank/delete/change/substitute, it puts the
thing in this scratch register. By default when you paste, it uses
this register. However, you can prefix the
yank/delete/change/substitute/paste commands by naming the register
you want to operate on, such as

"by3w

will yank 3 words into the "b" register, then

"bp

will paste the contents of the "b" register at some other location.
You can list the contents of registers with the

:reg

command. There are registers for filenames, expression evaluation,
most recent deletions, most recent yank, etc. If you want to
interchange with other applications, you may be interested in the
"system clipboard" register (or the "selection" register, if you're
running on X/Linux/BSD) which is effectively what other applications
will refer to as *the* clipboard. You *can* set 'clipboard' to
include "unnamed" as one of its options, but after trying it for an
afternoon, I found it drove me absolutely bonkers and I turned it
right back off.

Reading up at

:help registers

to learn LOTS more on them.

-tim





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