Re: How to paste register over visual selection?

On Friday, January 11, 2013 8:32:44 PM UTC-5, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 01/11/13 19:26, skeept wrote:
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> > If I have something stored in a specific register say register z
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> > and select something visual then I try to paste over it with "zp
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> > but this doesn't seem to do anything...
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> >
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> > Is there a easy way of accomplishing this?
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> This seems peculiar, as you're doing it right. Do you see the same
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> behavior when you start vim with
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> vim -u NONE file.txt
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> to eliminate startup scripts/settings?
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> Alternatively, I presume you're well aware of the contents, but if
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> you paste over the selection with the same contents (i.e., if the
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> contents of the "z" register are the same as what you're pasting
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> over, it would look like a noop).
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> Also, are you using Visual mode (v/V/^V), or are you using the
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> Selection mode (I never use this, so I can't tell you much about
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> entering it)? The pasting works in Visual mode, but I don't know
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> what it does in Selection mode. However you comment that you
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> "select something in *visual*", so I'm presuming you're doing that
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> right.
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> -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.

Sorry about the confusion.

Jorge.

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