How to select a piece of text and paste it at the current cursor position without using a mouse in vim?

Question

I want to stop using the mouse to select and paste pieces of text into the clipboard. What is the most efficient way to do this with kb? I mean going to an arbitrary line, copying a substring, returning to the previous position and pasting.

Answer 1

If you want to quickly jump to a line, use the search by typing /SUBSTRING and then Enter after you find the correct substring. Be sure to use hlsearch and incsearch :set incsearch and :set hlsearch

When you are on the right line, keep the whole line with yy or the whole word yaw . Then go back to where you started the search by typing two backticks `` Then you can insert your pulled string / string with p

Answer 2

A very simple method:

• Select rows with Shift-V
• Yankees (= copy) text with y
• Paste the text with p in the place you want.

There are, of course, many other ways to copy and paste, yy copies the current line, for example.

Do a few VIM tutorials, this is better than learning different things.

Answer 3

• Mark your current position by typing ma (you can use any other letter instead of a, it's just "name case by name".
• go to string and substring, for example using / search
• hold the text with y<movement> or mark it shift/ctrl-v and then y
• return to the previously marked position with `` a`` (backtick)
• insert your buffer with p or p

Answer 4

My usual method:

• Use visual mode to select text with v , v or Ctrl + v
• Using Yank with y
• Scroll to the line where you want to use 123G or :123
• Go where I want to be in this line with t or f
• Put text with p or p

If you need to jump back and forth between the spots, I would go through the jumps using g , and g ; .

Answer 5

Use "p" to insert after the current line and "P" to insert above the current line.

Answer 6

Not sure what you mean by "substring". If you want to copy line 50 to the current position, use:

  : 50t.

If you want to move line 50 to the current cursor position, use:

  : 50m.