Copy multiple times before pasting all of the contents in vim

Question

In vim, would there be a way to copy multiple times, accumulate each of them into the clipboard, and then later paste all of them at once where each contents are separated by newline?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '18 at 22:36

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Use uppercase registers to append. For example, let's clear and yank a line to register "a, append a line, append another line, then paste:

"ayy
"Ayy
"Ayy
"ap

Flag > in cpoptions inserts a line break before the appended text.

answered Mar 22 '18 at 22:36

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '18 at 06:32

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If all those lines share a pattern you can :help :copy (or its shortest alternative :help :t) them all at once with:

:g/pattern/t<line number>

answered Mar 23 '18 at 06:32

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This pastes in inverse order. I have a list that goes 1-40, and the paste goes 40-1. How could one paste in order? – nilon Aug 09 '19 at 17:57

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '18 at 09:32

I have this line in my .vimrc

nnoremap yY :let @"=@".getline('.')."\n"<CR>

Pressing yY appends the line under the cursor to the unnamed register.

Use it like this: First press yy to yank line under cursor.

Then press yY on several other lines.

Finally press p to put all these line somewhere.

Copy multiple times before pasting all of the contents in vim

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