Vim duplicate with same cursor position

Question

I want to duplicate a line with Vim. Every time when I use yyp or any other command, I have to jump the cursor to the position where it was. Is there any trick to duplicate a line and jump the cursor to its position, like maybe using a macro to save current the cursor position, duplicate, and then jump to the required position?

Answer 1

The only solution I'd see to do what you want, given you only use it for yyp (i.e. copy currentline and paste it below), is to record in a macro:

mmyyp`mj

what that does is:

• to record a mark m,
• copy current line
• paste it
• jump to col+row location of the mark m
• move the cursor one line down

ideally what you'd want is a jump to a column, not changing the row. I'm not sure if it's possible, I never needed that before.