Put to a particular line

Question

I would like to put the current text in a register onto line 10. How I am doing it now is yanking the text, then going up to that line and then pasting the text, but I'd like to stay on the current line. Is there a way to do something like:

12Gp " paste something onto line 12

Update: it looks like this is answered on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/53115840/651174.

:copy 12
:t 12       " alias

Or:

:move 12    " move current line(s) to position
:m 12       " alias

Though it works on the current line(s) or a range, and doesn't necessarily paste what's in the register.

Answer 1

Use :put.

To put the content of register a below line 12:

:12put a

To put the content of register a before line 12 add the exclamation mark:

:12put! a

BTW: Put can also be used with strings or variables:

:12put ="Below 12"
:let x="Also below 12"
:12put =x