Registers in VIM and other cool stuff

In the VIM world, clipboards where your copied/cut text are stored are called registers. And, there can be multiple registers (which you can choose to name), where your text can be stored after you have performed a copy/yank on them. (See the section: Using multiple clipboards at http://jmcpherson.org/editing.html ).

Let's try this. Type in a couple of lines in VIM:









Now, select the lines and copy them to register 'r' using, "ry (in command mode).

Now type in the following VIM command: :echo @r. You should see the text that you have copied earlier:








This means that using '@r' you can use the contents of the register in your VIM scripts or plugins. We could also do some cool stuff, such as passing it to a GNU screen session, as you can see here. If you don't code in Lisp, no problem. You can use the script to setup your Python or Ruby or any other similar development needs, without any change.