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Copy, delete, then paste in Vim

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Mar 15, 20266887 views
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Problem

I just started with Vim yesterday and am having trouble understanding copy & paste. I understand to copy I enter visual mode, highlight and then yank. I then move to the line I wish to paste onto, but more often then not I need to delete some text from this line. I do this using or . This then resu…

Error Output

$foo = $this->foo->property;
thislineuses($foo);

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Fix for: Copy, delete, then paste in Vim

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Take a look at . The default yank or delete goes into a place called a register (a register named ). If you need to delete some text before you paste, you need to avoid overwriting register x, as you've discovered. Fortunately, you can use any other…

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