Re: How to paste register over visual selection?

On Friday, January 11, 2013 10:00:37 PM UTC-5, skeept wrote:
> On Friday, January 11, 2013 8:32:44 PM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:
> > On 01/11/13 19:26, skeept wrote:
> >
> > > If I have something stored in a specific register say register z
> >
> > > and select something visual then I try to paste over it with "zp
> >
> > > but this doesn't seem to do anything...
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Is there a easy way of accomplishing this?
> >
> >
> >
> > This seems peculiar, as you're doing it right. Do you see the same
> >
> > behavior when you start vim with
> >
> >
> >
> > vim -u NONE file.txt
> >
> >
> >
> > to eliminate startup scripts/settings?
> >
> >
> >
> > Alternatively, I presume you're well aware of the contents, but if
> >
> > you paste over the selection with the same contents (i.e., if the
> >
> > contents of the "z" register are the same as what you're pasting
> >
> > over, it would look like a noop).
> >
> >
> >
> > Also, are you using Visual mode (v/V/^V), or are you using the
> >
> > Selection mode (I never use this, so I can't tell you much about
> >
> > entering it)? The pasting works in Visual mode, but I don't know
> >
> > what it does in Selection mode. However you comment that you
> >
> > "select something in *visual*", so I'm presuming you're doing that
> >
> > right.
> >
> >
> >
> > -tim
>
> Hi,
>
> you are right,
>
> when I do it with vim -u NONE it works perfectly.
> So I went checking in my vimrc and I actually have this map there:
>
> vnoremap p <Esc>:let current_reg = @"<CR>gvs<C-R>=current_reg<CR><Esc>
>
> So now I will try to replace @" by @z, I think this work better in my case because I usually specify a register explicitly when I want to copy visually selected text.
>

Would it be possible to define a mapping for p that, when in visual mode checks if I have specified a register (with "a) and in that case pastes the contents of that register, and if not simply pastes a previously specified register?

Regards,
Jorge

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