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In Vim, how can I search for the contents of a register?

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Mar 15, 20262771 views

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Say I've yanked the text "foo" into register . How can I search my file for the contents of that register? I know that I can type to search, then followed by to paste the contents of that register, leaving me with . But I'm trying to use the name of the register instead. For example, I tried , but …

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That's basically the easiest way to do it. If you want to script it, you could use something like this:

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