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When you yank text in Vim, register 0 always holds the most recent yank, independent of deletes that may have changed the unnamed register.
category: registers tags: #registers #clipboard #yank #workflow
"ayyj"Ayyk"ap
Named registers are much more powerful when you treat them as accumulators instead of one-shot clipboards.
category: registers tags: #registers #named-registers #yank #paste
"Ay{motion}
Using an uppercase register letter with any operator appends to the register instead of replacing it.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #delete #editing #normal-mode
"ayv
Using named registers with visual mode lets you store multiple independent snippets simultaneously.
category: visual-mode tags: #visual-mode #registers #yank #clipboard
"ayi(
Combining named registers with text object motions lets you precisely yank structured content — like function arguments, quoted strings, or bracketed expressi
category: registers tags: #registers #text-objects #yank #delimiters
"ayy"byy
Yank the line twice into different registers.
category: registers tags: #registers #multiple #yank
"ayiw
Use "a to specify register a, then yiw to yank the inner word.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #word
"a:'a,'by
Set marks with ma and mb, then yank the range between them into register a using "a:'a,'by.
category: registers tags: #registers #marks #yank
"ayip
Use "ayip to yank the inner paragraph into register a.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #paragraph
"ayis
Use "ayis to yank the inner sentence into register a.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #sentence
<C-v>jjll"ay
Enter visual block mode with , select the block, then "ay to yank the block into register a.
category: registers tags: #registers #block #yank
gg"aVGy
Go to the first line with gg, then visually select from there to the last line with VG, and yank into register a.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #entire-file
"aVaBy
Position cursor in a function, use VaB to visually select the block including braces, then "ay to yank into register a.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #function
qaq:g/pattern/normal "Ayy
Clear register a with qaq, then use :g/pattern/normal "Ayy to append all matching lines to register a.
"0p
Register 0 (the yank register) always contains the text from your most recent yank command — and unlike the unnamed register, it is never overwritten by delet
category: registers tags: #registers #paste #yank #workflow
"{register}y{motion}
Vim has 26 named registers (a-z) that act as independent clipboards.
category: registers tags: #registers #editing #normal-mode #yank #productivity
yy
The yy command yanks (copies) the entire current line, including the newline character.
category: editing tags: #editing #registers #yank #normal-mode
"+y
The "+y command yanks (copies) text into the system clipboard register, making it available to paste in other applications outside of Vim.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #editing #normal-mode
yyp
The yyp command duplicates the current line by yanking it and immediately pasting it below.
category: editing tags: #editing #yank #normal-mode
"Ayy
The "Ayy command appends the current line to register a instead of overwriting it.
category: registers tags: #registers #yank #editing #normal-mode