Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> From: Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Vi: Replace Word sequence
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 08:17:52 -0600
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:41:45AM -0100, john-paul delaney wrote:
>> Having previously yanked a word, I now want to replace the word at
>> the cursor with the one in memory. What's the best way to do this
>> substitution?
>
> Others have mentioned named buffers, but generally for this kind of work
> you don't need it. Just 'yw' to yank the word into the unnamed buffer,
> and 'pw' to stuff it back.
Maybe I miss understood the OP but I thought he was asking to do
something like this:
On a line with cursor represented by []
line1 []pest blak bla blah
At that line a cursor posiition we say `yw'
Now at a different line:
line20 []test blackak a ikfakljlasd
What do we say to replace test with pest
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