Re: Copy/delete/paste strategy?

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)
2. Select a VISUAL BLOCK around the commas (either use CTRL-V or CTRL-
Q in normal mode with the cursor on the topmost comma, then use j to
select all the commas you wish to replace)
3. Press the 'c' key to remove the commas and enter insert mode. Paste
the copied text with CTRL-R followed by 0
4. Press escape to exit visual block mode. Your text insertion is
automatically applied to each line which was selected.

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