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Suppose you are typing in vim and there are 5 common expressions that you need to insert into the text over and over.
Is there a way you can tell vim to paste from multiple clipboards without leaving insert mode?
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Suppose you are typing in vim and there are 5 common expressions that you need to insert into the text over and over.
Is there a way you can tell vim to paste from multiple clipboards without leaving insert mode?
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ctrl-r follwed by the register lets you paste the contents of a register without leaving insert mode.
Ctrl + r" Put from the default register
Ctrl + rd Put from register d
By the way, in vim they're called "registers" not "clipboards" and the verb is "put", not "paste". (Reminder, to get a visual selection into register d, you would use "dy)
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Do you need those expressions to come from clipboards?
You can easily do something like this:
:iab some_unique_string foo bar baz
And vim will replace "some_unique_string" with "foo bar baz" as soon as you enter it in insert mode.
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If its always the same expressions, e.g. in java programming things like "private static void main(String... args)" you can use a plugin like snipmate. You can configure it so you can just type "main<Tab>
" and it will exapnd to the long java code needed, and it has more cool features...
This is great! Also, how did you format text to look like keyboard buttons? I looked for something in the FAQs on SuperUser markdown but didn't find it. – Nathan Long – 2010-04-08T11:01:01.250
1Try with <kbd> tag. – danadam – 2010-09-03T13:12:12.797