Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 60

Delete, Yank, and Put with Vim’s Unnamed Register

Vim’s delete, yank, and put commands are designed to make common tasks easy by default. We’ll study a few problems that can easily be solved using Vim’s unnamed register, and then we’ll finish by looking at a task that requires a better understanding of how Vim’s registers work.

Normally when we discuss cut, copy, and paste, we talk about putting text on a clipboard. In Vim’s terminology, we don’t deal with a clipboard but instead with registers. In Tip 61, we’ll see that Vim has multiple registers, and we can specify which ones we want to use. But let’s start off by looking at what can be done using the unnamed register.

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