> Hi,
> I was wondering if there was a way to paste the contents of a
> buffer when in command line mode. For example, if I want to search for
> the word that I'm on, I was thinking of highlighting it in visual
> mode, yanking it into a buffer, then searching for what I yanked.
First off, in Vim, a buffer is the thing you edit, the in-memory
representation of a file. The thing you yank into and paste from is
called a register.
In answer to your question, yes, you can insert the contents of any
register into the command line by first typing Ctrl-R, then the name
of the register. Since the name of the default register is "
(double-quote), you could do what you want by yanking the word under
the cursor with
yiw
and pasting it at the desired point in the command line with
^R"
See
:help c_CTRL-R
Regards,
Gary
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