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In Vim, how is it possible to replace the remaining of a line with the yanked text? If I press "D", the yanked text will be replaced with the deleted text.
Also, how is it possible to yank to the end of the line? If I press "Y", it will yank the whole line.
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Use c$ or just C to quickly change from the cursor to the end of a line, cc to change an entire line, or cis for a sentence. The standard change word command requires you to type cw , then a new word, then press Escape.
Press ^ to move the cursor to the start of the current line. Press $ to move the cursor to the end of the current line.
The simplest way to perform a search and replace in Vim editor is using the slash and dot method. We can use the slash to search for a word, and then use the dot to replace it. This will highlight the first occurrence of the word “article”, and we can press the Enter key to jump to it.
Two ways you can replace text to the end of the line with previously yanked text:
v$p — v to enter visual mode; $ to move to end of line; p to paste over highlighted text.D"0p — the last yanked (as opposed to deleted) text is stored in register 0, so: D to delete to end of line; "0 to select register 0; p to paste that register.
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Your questions seems to be thoroughly answered by others at this point (v$p and y$), but I wanted to one additional piece of information:
To yank to end of line, the default way is y$. However, it is a fairly common practice to map Y y$ in your .vimrc, since the default behavior of Y is redundant with yy, and is inconsistent with other mappings, like D and C.
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