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I’m using the multiselect plugin. I have selected multiple contiguous blocks of code and want to yank all of them into one register. For example, from
-- selected A --
—— unselected ——
-- selected B --
I want to have
-- selected A --
-- selected B --
in one register. Executing MSExecCmd yank yanks the contiguous blocks into separate registers.
So how can I yank them into one?
What happens if you run:
:let @a=""
:MSExecNormalCmd "Ay
after you have your blocks visually selected?
... the idea (even if the above doesn't work) is still to yank-append each visually selected block to the same register. But, since you use a specific plugin, you are the one who should know how to do it (i.e. reading the plugin's help).
let @d=@a.@b.@c. The dot is an operator that concatenates strings.~/.vimrcthat maps<leader>cto"Ayin visual mode, which gives :vnoremap <leader>c "Ay. Then, in vim clear the registera:let @a="". Then, visually select first block of code and type<leader>c, go to second block of code, visually select it and type<leader>c, etc. When I'm finished and I want to paste the concatenated blocks, I would type in normal mode"ap."ayon a visually selected text, the text overwrites the content of the registera, but when you use the capital letter instead of the lower one, it appends to the register instead of overwriting it.