On Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:41:24 PM UTC+12, eNG1Ne wrote: > 1. copy block of text to register a with "ay6
In normal mode that's an incomplete command, unless you're in visual mode, in which case it has an extra 6. In command mode, that is :"ay6 it's a comment, so a no-op, so it doesn't put anything in register a. The incomplete command will swallow another keystroke, confusing things, and possibly triggering an error and so not putting anything in register a. Also, in "ap; the ; looks spurious, maybe you wanted n. It looks like your gibberish is a previously recorded macro into register a, one where you pressed arrow keys, I think, and then tried to abandon by typing escape twice. If you had recorded into register a it would look like /\t21^M"ap; HTH, regards, John Little -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
