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zzzgoo
zzzgoo

Reputation: 2235

why :"*p doesn't work at all?

I am using git bash.

type

:reg

It will get: 

"-   the
"*   Neovim
".   edir
":   ["*]p
"%   README.md
"/   \<the\>

and 

:"*p

will get nothing, the content stored in "* won't be pasted to the buffer.

Why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 73

Answers (1)

Amadan
Amadan

Reputation: 198436

:p is :print, which is not the paste command, and the syntax is all wrong anyway. "*p as a normal mode command (notice the absence of colon) pastes the * register. The corresponding ex command (with colon) is :put (not :paste, as one might think), that can be abbreviated to :pu (not :p), and the register comes after it as a parameter, not before it (which is where the range would go): :pu *

By default this will put it under the current line; if you specify the range, it puts it there; so to put it as the top line, you would say :0pu *, to put it as the last line :$pu *

Upvotes: 8

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