Questions tagged [register]
Registers store snippets of text for yank (copy), delete (cut), put (paste). In Vim, registers are also used for macro playback and some registers are special and can reference the OS clipboard or evaluate expressions.
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Syncing x clipboard with yanks and put only?
I have discovered the joy of having :set clipboard^=unnamedplus.
One issue I often face however is having whatever was last copied or yanked be overwritten by what I just deleted.
I don't think ...
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Remap p if no register is specified
To stop pasting over a selection from yanking that selection, I would like to remap p so that it doesn't yank the just-rewritten selection:
vim.keymap.set("x", "p", [["_dP]])
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How to clear the uppercase registers?
The uppercase register has this nice characteristic of allowing appends to them.
However, every time I use them to yank a series of text, when it's time to paste them, I can see the old text from when ...
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Why my visual selection buffer contains ^@
I am writing a function to reformat a visual selection:
function! FormatText() range
" Calling this function has ended visual mode, so it must be started
" again before the selection can ...
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Yank non-consecutive lines into the register?
I'm surprised this hasn't been asked yet, but how do I copy non-consecutive lines into the buffer at once?
For example, let's say my file looks like this:
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What commands can I use ...
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Report more than 200 lines cut/pasted -- Vividly?
I have a text document where I frequently move/cut large blocks of text.
Every 2-3 months I inadvertently cut or paste a huge number of lines (60,000 today) and discover the error hours, or even days, ...
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Expression Register - Power, Root & Mod
Foreword
In case you don't know, you can evaluate math expressions in vim/neovim with this command:
While in INSERT mode, press CTRL+R, then =. Example: =2+2 inserts 4 into your buffer.
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Replace with fixed character (e.g. spaces) and add replaced text to register
I would like to have a selection that whose contents I replace with a command like r, but the replaced text is added to a register.
The use case is editing a Markdown table in Vim, where I want to ...
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Replace every character on a visual selection with a register's character
I'll try to illustrate as clear as I can.
Suppose I have the following text open in vim/nvim
_________
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| 9999 |
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If select 9999 visually and then hit r8, this ...
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What does ^= mean in set command?
I had seen a set command in .vimrc:
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
What does ^= mean in set command?What is the difference between
set clipboard^=unnamed,unnamedplus
and
set clipboard=unnamed,...
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Copy text from all folds, excluding titles
How do I copy all lines from all folds, excluding the fold titles?
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Is there any easy way to undo put if I selected the wrong register?
Sometimes I accidently put from the wrong register and end up hitting u to undo, but then I have to reselect the text that I was trying to replace. Is there an easy way to either reapply the put from ...
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Yank list of lines into a register in vimscript
I am writing a function and I wish to yank a range of lines into a register.
The line that I cannot fix is the following:
let @" = getline(l:line_in,l:line_out)
where l:line_in and l:line out ...
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How do the * and + registrers behave in the virtual console?
My Vim is installed with +clipboard support, and all works just fine.
I know that the clipboard comes with X, so there isn't such a thing in a virtual console (or, at least, this is what I've ...
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How does recording a macro differ from defining a macro directly?
In my Vim configuration, I have mapped the <C-j> key to <cmd>bn<CR>, but because the C-j key corresponds to the null character in Vim, this causes some strange issues when defining ...
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Paste register contents from :reg screen
:reg displays the contents of the numbered and special registers. Is there a way to then paste a register but retain the output of :reg on the screen? This avoids the need to store the register name ...
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Is there a plugin for saving/loading registers' contents to/from files in a convenient way?
tl;dr
Is there a Vim plugin that allows me to save/load registers to/from files with minimal typing, preview of registers, and other amenities?
Long version
Vim has a lot of registers. However, the &...
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How do I search the contents of registers?
I have a bad habit of deleting some text a, heading off to another section of the document to paste it, and finding something else along the way that I need to delete. When I get to my final ...
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Store the current filename in a given register
When I exchange with colleagues about the code, when I refer to given functions, I like to also mention the file.
Since this exchange does not usually take place within vim, I usually copy them out ...
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(Code review) Copying file path relative to cwd with the line number appended
I am replicating what PHPStorm and VSCode do by allowing me to copy the file path and line number (plus column) to clipboard. I have written a function in lua to do this, but, I wanted to ask about ...
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How to save a macro (for quickly printing a variable)?
I'm trying to create a macro for an action that I very frequently use in Python: printing a variable in a bright color so it can easily be found in the traces while debugging.
So lets say there's ...
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Inserting the content of a register where a macro is recorded results in control characters becoming unicode characters
If I hit Ctrl+V and then Escape while in insert or ex mode, I get ^[ as a single character.
If I hit qqEscapeq and then go see :registers, I see that q contains ^[<80><fd>a, which are ...
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How to reference a register in an ex command
I'm trying to write what I thought would be a simple macro to take some values that have been yanked into some registers (a & b) and use bc to do some addition with those values.
Here is the ...
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How to execute a shell script from a line in a file with `%` in it
I have a shell script on a line alone in a file which I would like to be able to easily execute from vim. Normally I could simply use Y:!^R", but this particular script has % in it, which is ...
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Register for your last action (.)
Vim has a lot of useful registers from which you can access the contents of various actions. There's ": for the last command in the command line, "/ for the last search, ". for the last ...
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How do I show the jumps list permanently in a window?
As the title says, is there a way to view the jumps list opened in a permanent window? The question is also valid for registers list.
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Manipulate the dot command without editing text in insert mode
I need to manipulate the dot command without directly editing the buffer for a plugin I'm developing.
The plugin needs to manually append text to the dot command that will be executed while in insert ...
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Escape key adds extra bytes into the register when recording a macro [duplicate]
When I try to record a macro that involves hitting Esc the following bytes are added to the register <80><fd>a for example if I type qq<Esc>q when I :echo @q I get back ^[<80>&...
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Why does cw followed by ctrl-r register consist of two edits?
I did cwCtrl-Ra at the beginning of a word to paste the content of register a in its place. And this, I thought, is done entering insert mode only once; or at least, never going back to normal mode.
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What's the easiest way to replace some text with the contents of the clipboard when using clipboard=unnamed?
Assume I've copied some text into the clipboard from another program. I'm on MacOS, so in Vim terms, this means the text is in the + and * registers (I have verified this using :registers). I use ...
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When searching and replacing can I store a capture group to a register?
This is similar but I am unable to draw the information I need from it: How to store all occurrences of a multiline search in a register?
I have these lines
################### trim 8 ...
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Yanking range into register while ignoring blank lines
I’m trying to yank a range into a register while ignoring blank lines. My range is from line 10 to the end of the file.
:10,$v/./"*y
Looking at my registers in :reg I see that my text is not in ...
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Can a register's value be checked at startup?
There are probably 20 better ways to do what I'm trying to do. Please direct me to them if so - I haven't found them and not quite sure what to terms to search.
I would prefer to set background=dark ...
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Is there any way of copying a macro inside a register to a different register?
I've discovered I can execute vim macros from the command line using the following command:
vim myfile -c "argdo norm @aZZ"
This command executed from the command line will execute a macro ...
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Is it possible to call a shell command which includes default register contents inside a function?
I want to write a function which opens a vim plugin's Github page, eg calling the function while on this line:
Plug 'tpope/vim-rhubarb'
... will do !open https://github.com/tpope/vim-rhubarb.
Here's ...
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search and replace block to a line
I would like to replace a multiline block to one line
for example :
if (... ){
//comment0
line1
line2
}
some code
if (... ){
//comment0
line1
line2
}
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search last substitution
After doing
:%s/foo/bar/g
I can type
:<C-r>/
to place foo into the command line.
How can I place bar into the command line?
I ultimately want to do a series of:
:%s/foo/bar/g
:%s/bar/baz/g
:%s/...
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Yanking into register within a script is not working
Given a file like this:
Roy
Maurice
Jen
Douglas
If I were to type the following commands: ggVj"zy, followed by :reg z, I would see Roy and Maurice.
Now I want to yank Jen and Douglas into the z ...
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How to point the cursor to result when search by 'let @/ = '?
To reproduce this problem:
Open a new vim window, input "abc", leave cursor at the end of line
set hlsearch
let @/ = "abc"
The cursor doesn't point to the beginning of "abc&...
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Delete/yank into multiple registers at the same time?
Is there a way to have y/d/c/x/s output into multiple registers at the same time - for example, "a as well as the system clipboard "+? I can do "aY"+Y obviously, and with Y it's ...
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Reliably saving and restoring registers across a function call [duplicate]
When writing functions to use in mappings and user-defined commands (for plug-ins), it's often convenient to use a Normal-mode command to yank or delete buffer contents. In those cases, it's also nice ...
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Recover whole search pattern for substitute command
Sometimes I type a long substitute command
/%s/foo/bar.../
and while I am typing it or only after hiting enter
I notice that I have mistakenly
used a the search key (/) instead of the ex-command key (...
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Pass visually-selected text as argument to script
I am trying to write a command that passes selected text to a shell script.
The command works fine when there is no \n character in the selected text (using Visual mode).
:vmap <Leader>tts 0y:...
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Paste clipboard data in Insert mode
I have learnt to paste clipboard data (something i copied from web browser using ctrl+c) to my current buffer in insert mode.
It is much easier than doing that in Normal mode.
To paste clipboard data ...
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Vim not storing numbered registers
I've read that Vim automatically stores previously yanked texts into registers from 1 to 9, being 1 the previous yank, 2 the second previous, and so on...
But this is not working for me.
Here is a ...
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Append single-line register to many lines
I have a file like
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one;line;with;many;data
starter
another_starter
yet_to_end
complete;line;providing;information
...
and I would like to have:
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one;line;with;many;data
starter;default;...
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Presentation of non-printable characters in messages
Vim has two options to represent non-printable characters - as a single char or using key-notation: ^J or <C-J>.
By default, vim uses a single-char representation for :reg command:
"q ...
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Odd behavior when trying to perform a substitution on the clipboard register
I have a map that creates a markdown hyperlink for the current url open in the browser:
inoremap <Leader>gg [<esc>:silent !~/bin/copy_safari_title.osa <cr>"+pa](<esc>:...
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Append to current copy buffer
I am copying multiple lines from different parts.
I can for example do
3yy
to copy the 3 next lines.
Then I would like to scroll a bit and add 5 more lines:
5yy
and so on.
At the end, I want to paste ...
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No + or * register on Linux (accessed via SSH from macOS)? [duplicate]
I am on Ubuntu 14.04.3 and Vim 8.2. I'm trying to figure out how to access either the * or + clipboard on Ubuntu but it seems like it doesn't exist? After doing "*yy and "+yy on lines of ...
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