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> On Feb 21, 10:41 am, David Kahn<d...@structuralartistry.com> wrote:
>> Relatively new to vim. I know there are other ways to do this specific task
>> such as search/replace but I want to understand how to repeatedly paste some
>> text but also overwrite a certain character, in the case I want to do it
>> manually. This has brought me to need to understand if there is a sort of
>> clipboard/yank history.
>>
>> For example, I have yanked this text:
>>
>> .truncate(
>>
>> I want to replace the comma ',' in the lines below with my yanked text in
>> each line:
>>
>> word,12)
>> word2,12)
>> word3,12)
>>
>> So what I do is move in regular mode to the first comma and press 'x' to
>> remove the comma, and then press 'p'... however instead of getting my yanked
>> text, I get the text now under the cursor, in this case '1'. So how do I
>> handle a yank> delete> put operation, and multiple times?
>
> You've got a lot of great suggestions, let me add one more (which may
> work depending on what you're trying to do):
>
> 1. align the commas in the lines you wish to replace:
> word ,12)
> word2,12)
> word3,12)
How can one easily align the above three lines? I guess there must be
something like selecting a range and then tell vim what the character to
align at is.
Thanks Elias
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