If you have the setting set clipboard=unnamedplus in your .vimrc then this will not be working. For OSX you have to use set clipboard=unnamed For Linux you will probably need to use set clipboard=unnamedplus Heres the snippet from my personal .vimrc if system(‘uname -s’) == “Darwin\n” set clipboard=unnamed “OSX else set clipboard=unnamedplus “Linux endif
Don’t use the kill ring; put the text into a register instead. C-x r s a to store the region’s text into (say) register “a”; then C-x r i a to insert it elsewhere.
Often, this behavior is useful. When you don’t want it, you can instead do the usual yank, then paste (officially, ‘put’) with “0p. You can do this however many times you like. See :help v_p for more. If you want to avoid the overwrite, you need to delete first. You can use “_ to select … Read more
Yank lines 81-91 :81,91y<enter> If your fingers don’t like to find the : and , keys, this would work as well (go to line 81, yank 11 lines) 81gg11yy My only use of g is 5gg. To go to the 5th line. 22gg: 22nd line. As jimbo said, it’s really only a modifier for some … Read more
TL;DR :let @” = expand(“%”)> this will copy the file name to the unamed register, then you can use good old p to paste it. and of course you can map this to a key for quicker use. :nmap cp :let @” = expand(“%”)<cr> you can also use this for full path :let @” = … Read more
To select between the single quotes I usually do a vi’ (“select inner single quotes”). Inside a parenthesis block, I use vib (“select inner block”) Inside a curly braces block you can use viB (“capital B”) To make the selections “inclusive” (select also the quotes, parenthesis or braces) you can use a instead of i. … Read more