[ILUG] vi paste tip...

[kevin lyda]

ok, let's say your cursor is on ok, and you delete this paragraph with
the command [d}] (just the d} part, for this mail i'm wrapping
keystrokes in []'s).  the reason you deleted it is because you want to
move it to another file.

so now you open the other file with [:e other.file.txt<return>].  as
you're scrolling down to where you want to put it, you accidentally
delete/yank some text.

you've saved the last file and now doing [p] just inserts the text you
just deleted/yanked.  how can you get back what you deleted?  vim
extends vi's numbered delete buffers so that they work from one file to
the next - switching files doesn't delete the numbered delete buffers.

the numbered buffers are numbered from 0 to 9.  ["0p] is the same as
plain old [p].  ["1p] is the buffer from the previous delete, ["2p] is
from the delete before that, etc.  note that while ["0p] has the last
delete or yank, the other numbered buffers only contain previous
deletes.

it's handy, and thanks to donncha for looking it up the other day while
i was on the train.

kevin

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