On 08/03/2017 05:00 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 02.08.17 17:45, Parag Bhatt [C] wrote: >> I am looking for a quick way to change a word(cw?) with one >> that was yanked (yw). I do not want to enter insert mode, >> and would like to do it in command mode. > > With the cursor on the start of the target word, dw"0P will do > it. I admit that I had to look at the output of :registers to > find which one held the prior word. If used frequently, I'd be > tempted to map it to e.g. Alt-R. > > Erik
I frequently use visual mode to select the word, then paste over the selection from register 0. Usually I don't want the behavior of ``dw`` because that removes trailing spaces and I typically have yanked only the replacement word (without trailing spaces), so I select the word with ``ve`` and then paste with ``"0P``. Because it's a bit cumbersome to type the ``"0P``, I've mapped ``P`` in visual mode to put from register 0. Here's the line from my .vimrc:: " Put from most recent yank instead of scratch register. xnoremap P "0P With the above mapping, I would press ``veP`` to replace the word that starts under the cursor with the most recently yanked word. I find I use ``P`` in visual mode fairly often to replace yanked lines or other pieces of text as well as just words. Michael Henry -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
