Assuming the current buffer is a file open for edit, so :e does not display E32: No file name. I would like to yank one or all of: The file name exactly as show on the status line, e.g. ~\myfil...

I know that I can yank all matched lines into register A like this: :g/regex/y/A But I can't seem to figure out how to yank match regex groups into register A: :g/\(regex\)/\1y A (E10: \ should...

I'm sure there used to be a plugin for this kinda stuff, but now that I need it, I can't seem to find it (naturally), so I'll just ask nice and simple. What is the easiest way to select between br...

I would like to mimic a nice effect found in the game Vim Adventures: When a yank command is done, I would like the yanked area to be highlighted (let's say in red) for a second to show me that my ...

If I yank a word in kakoune, how do I paste it into another editor (e.g. gedit)? I have read How to make vim paste from (and copy to) system's clipboard? since vim is very similar but kakoune doe...

Here is my problem: I am in visual mode. I select text and copy it to the buffer. ((y)ank) I select another text which I want to replace and paste the buffer. ((p)aste) Now the second selection...

I'm a C# developer who has just recently decided to expand my knowledge of the tools available to me. The first tool I've decided to learn is Vi/Vim. Everything has been going well so far, but ther...

I often find myself repeatedly yanking something after doing some kills and it becomes a process like: C-y C-y M-y C-y M-y M-y C-y M-y M-y M-y Each time I kill some text it pushes the first kil...

The yankring plugin for Vim creates a file in my home directory called yankring_history_v2.txt. How do I tell the plugin to store this file in another location?

When I delete something in vim, it's added to the numbered registers. The last item I yanked is in register 0. How can I get vim to automatically remember the last 10 yanks too? I've tried YankR...

I'm fairly new to Vim. Tonight, I learned about the "yank" command, but when I try to use it in MacVim, it doesn't do anything. Neither Y nor y{motion} do anything. I tried with a default .vimrc to...

This question was probably answered before, but I tried searching and could not find the answer anywhere. I am somewhat new to Vim and I am having the following issue. Once I yank a line and paste...

I want to overwrite text by yank as following. Is there any way to do this? kill-ring: text-i-want-to-paste Before: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ^ corsor After: text-i-want-to-pasteuvwxyz

Is there a motion for capturing text in between / or \? I know there is motions for other symbols --- ci" - Capture 'text' inside "text" vi( - Visual capture int var inside foo(int var) di[ - De...

When I tried to run Emacs on a remote server through ssh, the C-y (even M-x yank) can't work. Every time I press C-y, it says "Mark set", but nothing else happens. I'm working under Linux and the r...

I'm yanking range of lines to system clipboard in vim. I can do it with 51gg116"+yy. I'd like to do it via : notation. I can copy to "" register via command :51,116y. However, command 51,116"+y doe...

I want to write a function that will insert the file name of the current buffer into the kill ring so I can yank it to the terminal in another window. How can I programmatically insert a string int...

For example, when I yank some text from vim, then :wq, and open a new file. When I try to paste the text I just yanked, it doesn't work. So how to yank text between files?

I would like to yank - A full path to the file, e.g. c:\foo\bar\file.txt:94 with its line no I would also like to paste it to my system clipboard so i will use '+' register for this. can you ...

yank: to pull on something with a quick vigorous movement How does "yank" correspond to the copy functionality in Vim?

With insertions, it is very easy to both wipe out a word/section and insert over it, like so cw delete until end of word (with space) then go to insert mode ce delete until end of word (without s...