Eric Leenman wrote:
Hi,
I'm used to cut, copy and paste the windows-way.
Meaning, selecting text and then press CTRL-X, CTRL-C or CTRL-V.
In VIM (and correct me if I'm wrong) you
yank (y) for copy
put (p) for paste
..... for cut
With this in mind, how to cut, copy and paste the VIM-way?
Because when I select text and see select-mode in the lowest line
and then press y, I see a letter y in my text and the selected text is
gone.
How come?
Rgds,
Eric
The Vim names for cut, copy and paste are delete, yank and put, respectively.
By default, they use the "unnamed register", which is good enough when the
cut/copy and the paste happen within a single instance of Vim. To use the
clipboard, specify register + by using either a "+ prefix to the Normal-mode
commands y d p P or by postfixing a + argument to the :y[ank] :d[elete] and
:pu[t] Ex-commands (which accept a range).
The difference between Select mode and Visual mode is that in Select mode, any
printable-character key hit causes the character in question to replace the
selection. All the Normal-mode commands and Ex-commands mentioned above are
for Normal or Visual modes, not for Select or Insert/Replace.
To create a Visual (not Select) -mode selection, hit v at one end of the
selection, then move the cursor to the other end.
See
:help y
:help d
:help p
:help P
:help {motion}
:help motion.txt
:help registers
:help :yank
:help :delete
:help :put
:help :range
Examples:
:%y +
copy the whole file to the clipboard
dd
delete the current line into the default register
"+5yy
yank 5 lines (starting at current line) into the clipboard
p
put the default register after the cursor
"+P
put the clipboard before the cursor
y$
yank from the cursor to the end of the line
:$put +
add the clipboard after the last line of the file
etc.
Best regards,
Tony.
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