Gene Kwiecinski wrote:
Personally, I don't agree with you. When editing short text
items on web pages, I feel that the overhead of copying/pasting
back and forth from vim is too much. I am currently using the
Speaking of which, is there any quicker way to visually select the
entire file, analogous to ^A in other systems? I have to essentially do
1GVG<ctl-del>
to stick everything into the scratchpad/clipboard/whatever to dump it
back into the item from whence it originally came, and that's just a
pain. Well, not so much a pain as an annoying itch I can't quite reach.
I was thinking something along the lines of
%V
but that obviously won't work. :)
It may depend on what you want to do with the selection: see the commands
":yank", ":put", "delete", all of which accept a range and a register:
To copy the whole file to the clipboard:
:%y+
To cut (delete) the whole file to the clipboard (not very useful for the whole
file, but it may be interesting for a different range):
:%d+
To paste the clipboard after the last line:
:$put+
To paste the clipboard before the first line:
:0put+
To paste the clipboard linewise after the current line:
:put+
Without the + at the end, all these act on the default ("unnamed") register.
Best regards,
Tony.
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