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Let us say that I yanked the following word: Cheese. Now I want to find Cheese within a text document. I hit the forward slash key(/)... and this is where I end. Is there a way to search with Yanked word? Also, is there a way you can use yanked words in substitution(s:/yanked/beef/g)?
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Move the cursor to another word (say "third"). Repeat the operation (change word and replace it with "first"). Move the cursor to another word and press . to repeat the change. Yank inner text (text containing cursor which is in quotes).
Copying (Yanking) To copy text, place the cursor in the desired location and press the y key followed by the movement command. Below are some helpful yanking commands: yy - Yank (copy) the current line, including the newline character.
Below steps explains how to yank. In vim command mode press v , this will switch you to VISUAL mode. Move the cursor around to select the text or lines you need to copy. Press y , this will copy the selected text to clipboard.
In Vim, Copying is done using the y or "yanking". To copy selected text to system clipboard type "+y in Normal Mode. Now you can paste it anywhere else using Ctrl-v .
The most recently yanked text will be stored in the 0 and " registers (if no register was explicitly specified e.g. by "xy).
Then you can paste the text of any that register in the last line (either in search mode / or in last line command mode : ) with Ctrl-RX, where X is the register you want to paste.
For example:
/Ctrl-R0
Will paste the contents of the register 0 in the forward search command pattern.
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q/: open the search history
pEnter: paste the yanked text on the command line and search
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