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Jon49
Jon49

Reputation: 4606

Vim: What does a double quotation mark mean at the beginning of a command?

For example when I write a macro command to editor from register r with

"rp

What does that quotation mean?

I can't seem to find the answer anywhere.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 7127

Answers (2)

Adam Liss
Adam Liss

Reputation: 48310

The double quote indicates that the next character is the name of a register. So the command "rp means: "from the named register r, paste text."


Sort of related, a single quote indicates that the next character is an address. So, for example if you navigate to some line in the file and press ma, you've "marked" the address as a. You can then refer to that line with 'a. The command 'a will jump to the line marked as a.

Upvotes: 21

Lee Duhem
Lee Duhem

Reputation: 15121

@AdamLiss already explained the meaning of "rp, but I think you can learn more from Vim online manual.

For the explanation of p, you can run :h p in Vim; for the introduction of ["x], you can run Vim command :h [quotex]. And for general help of Vim, just run :h.

Upvotes: 4

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