Lev Lvovsky wrote:
Hi Gene - sorry for the delay in replying -
On Feb 16, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
I often find myself copy/pasting via my GUI text that I might have on
the screen, and then pasting it into the command to be performed - is
there any way to cut/paste text into the command area when I have it
highlighted with just the keyboard?
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but if it's what I think it is, sure.
If I want to, eg, globally delete paths from links to images and such in
html source, eg, to turn
<img src="big_honking_pile_of_hooey_files/image.jpg">
into just
<img src="image.jpg">
, then I'd want to execute
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@@g
as a command, so I'd just 'v' the pathname to highlight it,
control-insert it to yank it into the "clipboard"(?), then do
:s@<sh-ins>@@g
ie, use shift-insert to "paste" the path directly into the command.
is that any help, or were you referring to something different?
Unless I'm mistaken, these are OS-specific copy/paste commands,
correct? I don't have an 'insert' key on my keyboard, but I was hoping
for something built into vim, where it has it's own copy/paste buffer
that it can use in the command mode.
thanks!
-lev
The clipboard is known in Vim as the + register.
Start characterwise visual with v then extend it by moving the cursor
Yank with y
Yank to the clipboard with "+y
Paste ("put") before the cursor with P -- after the cursor with p
Prefix it with "+ to use the system clipboard.
In Vim you don't need to use the clipboard unless you want to paste to/from
another program.
See the other replies in this thread for details.
See also ":help change.txt"
Best regards,
Tony.
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