Repeat last yank

Question

I'm appending text to "a" register with:"AyW.
If I wanted to repeat last change I would use:. But in this case I would like to repeat the last yank command.
Is there a command to repeat the last yank (append)? or should I use q to record a macro instead?

Answer 1

If you include the flag y in the cpoptions option;

set cpoptions+=y

then yanks may be repeated using .. See :help cpo-y:

                            *cpo-y*
    y   A yank command can be redone with ".".