I want to know if there is any way by which I can paste yanked text to the command window. For eg. if I have yanked a word and I want to grep it in some location I cant simply paste the word using 'p'. However if I copy it to clipboard, Shift-Insert will paste the same thing.
Is there any tweak available which would allow me to paste yanked text to the vim command prompt? I am using gvim on Windows.
try to use
<ctrl+r>"
where " stands for default register.
please see my answer in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/101258/in-vim-is-there-a-way-to-paste-text-in-the-search-line
<C-R>" Will paste default buffer. Alternately, you can use q: to open a buffer for the next command. try :help q:
You can yank to the clipboard using the * named buffer. For instance, this will copy the current line to the clipboard:
"*yy
So you can copy a line using this, and then paste it with shift-insert in the commandline.
Similarly, you can paste from the clipboard like this:
"*p