Re: keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy & paste ????

On 05/08/14 01:37, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote:
> I sometimes want to paste with a keyboard short cut but obviously ^V
> doesn't work, in GVim cut copy and paste are available on the tool bar,
> what keyboard short cuts are there to do this ?? I cannot find it in help
>
>

As others have already told you, e Vim names for "cut","copy" and
"paste" are "delete", "yank" and "put" respectively, and the clipboard
is accessed as the + and * registers; As already said, on Windows both
are the same; on X the + register is what Edit→Copy, Edit→Cut and
Edit→Paste (in gvim and in other programs used) while the * register is
what most other programs use for select and MiddleMouse.

I'll add that:
1) If you had looked at the gvim menus, you would have found near the
right margin the equivalent keyboard command; they are however slightly
different if you aren't in Normal mode;
2) each of Delete, Yank and Put exist as both a Normal-mode command
(which can be preceded by a register and followed by a movement or
object, and can be characterwise, linewise or blockwise) and as an
ex-command (which can be preceded by a range and is always linewise).

Examples:

:$-5,$d +
cut the last 6 lines into the clipboard
:$put +
paste after the last line
:0put +
paste before the first line
5:y +
which Vim changes into
:.,.+4y +
copy the current line and the 4 lines after it (for a total of 5)
"+dd
cut the current line to the clipboard
"+diw
cut the current word (without the surrounding space)
"+ya"
copy the current quoted string (with its quotes, and the space on one side)
"+p
paste after the cursor
"+P
paste before the cursor

etc.

For more details, see

:help "*
:help "+
:help p
:help P
:help y
:help d
:help :put
:help :yank
:help :delete
:help [range]
:help motion.txt
etc.


Best regards,
Tony.
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