Understanding The Vim Registers

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[@user_null3696]

7:45 The small delete register stores deleted characters (content within a line), whereas numbered registers are used to store deleted lines. The reason s, x, X, c, C, d, D work is because they delete characters, whereas dd, S delete a line It is very useful because it can store content of commands like "diw", whereas numbered registers cannot.

[@noabstruction]

Thanks null

[@ablanchi]

that macro edit is GOLD

[@mangelozzi]

Black hole register is also very useful when writing vim script / plugins and you wish to not change the state of the users registers when performing some commands.

[@FredMaterias]

I'm even more impressed with the fact that I learned that the symbol "#" is called octothorpe

[@9bnmadden]

I have watched this four times in the past year! What an awesome video which definitely leveled up my vim game! Thanks for the great tutorial.

[@cindysi63]

So many useful tips. Love the tip on editing macro!! Thank you

[@alexandrostsagkaropoulos]

I was searching for this kind of video for ages. Thanks for the good work!

[@velizarbodurski6005]

another fun detail with named registers (such as "a, "b) is that they are aliased also to "A and "B, and when you yank & delete into "A - you're appending text the corresponding named register (not replacing its content, which would happen if you use "a)

[@mattetis]

Is it possible to append easily to the unnamed as well? (Like without pasting the contents first and then yanking?)

Super clear and actually entertaining explanation, thanks.

[@guyindisguise]

14:35 Instead of using Ex-mode and copying the last command with :: you can just type @: from normal-mode (I somehow learned this by accident) PS: great video, I learned a lot! edit: it's even in the vimhelp :h @: @: Repeat last command-line [count] times. {not available when compiled without the +cmdline_hist feature}

[@theemacsen1518]

Dude you have a great voice lmao XD

[@diarmaidmac2149]

The audio quality is refreshingly good! Nice video too! Thanks!

[@mangelozzi]

Instead of using ^r =system('ls'), in normal mode you can do :r !ls Where r is for the read and insert command

[@glenn8459]

Or you can do !!ls in normal mode which is very useful

[@sevos]

At long last I found a video that doesn't just explain which reg is which, but actually makes real life usage examples

[@princeofexcess]

for black hole register. if you deleted something you want to paste but on the way to pasting you encounter something you want to delete, i use the black hole register so I dont override my previous delete/yank. In my nvim i have a command setup just for this so i can keep pasting without overriding what im pasting. I will select something i want to paste over then do p to paste over it. with just p whatever i had selected would end up in my unnamed register so i loose my original yank.

[@anishkapatel8393]

awesome video just brushed up my vim reg knowledge editing macros was eye opener cant even tell you how many times i had to redo macro recordings

[@devonmorris1992]

This is beautiful. I need to spend more time on those vim help pages.

[@zach1912XD]

my favorite black whole usage is when I want to keep something in the unnamed register but I also want to delete something, _"d is often a very natural way to accomplish it

[@al-du6lb]

Based. I'm definitely going to have to watch this again.

[@ryanwwest]

The selection register timestamp got pulled into the black hole register too. Lol but great video.

[@lindat.7097]

Great video! Thank you!!!

[@kevinchang9616]

Very helpful video, thank you!

[@shashanksharma21]

brilliantly explained, thank you !

[@JoePescisAngryCousin]

This video is fantastic. Thank you.

[@regvud]

Thx for sharing

[@nghialm269]

29:34 You can just leave the search pattern empty, vim will automatically use the last search register.

[@sussusamogus7831]

great video, tyvm

[@ChrisCox-wv7oo]

This is fantastic, subbed for life

[@konradchyrzynski8326]

Thanks for the video :)

[@devgalileu]

Awesome content!

[@gjermundification]

Named registers explained really well.

[@bronekszulc3272]

This video was super valuable to me

[@slipcurve1410]

this was great. also you have a amazing radio voice.

[@jevessonsouza7947]

A huge THANK YOU!!!

[@serhiibudnik4379]

that was interesting, thank you

[@tiagodejesus456]

Great video!

[@JohnBortins]

Outstanding!

[@michaelbaumeister4900]

Very helpfull, thank you.

[@stracci_5698]

Vim just keeps on giving

[@PalinuroRex]

Soooo useful.

[@miaomiao1415]

I would say thank you !

[@_jdfx]

amazing!

[@0xssff]

thanks a lot

[@pav5000]

12:00 OMG, these macros are like multicursor but so much worse. Because it's very easy to accidently mess it up and takes a long time to fix your mistake. When using multicursor you see the result immediately and can undo your last action and just use another.

[@al-du6lb]

7:31 did you mean 3 hundred thousand "words" ? You did a great job with this video btw.

[@scifregizmoguy]

10:33 Definitely could have used the command-line-window there to avoid awkward editing. :help cmdwin

[@saltrocklamp199]

The behavior of % in ex mode is to splice in and modify the contents of the "% register without needing to type ctrl-r%. Is that behavior unique to %?

[@sumanth3036]

Love

[@mangelozzi]

Maybe I missed it, but after googling the smaller delete register is accessible via "-

[@rashie]

👍👍

[@matthewrease2376]

I have + and * configured to be different clipboards. I use KDE on my system, so one of them copies to klipper, but I don't *always* run KDE on my system, so the other one copies to xclip.

[@no_name4796]

10:35 This is a bad example, since you can just record a new macro and do: @aA,j

[@swagatbaruah522]

can u tell : "How to clear the register" when its really messy

[@damian_madmansnest]

:let @x="" (where x is the register name)

[@asdiasx]

Great video! Thanks ( please consider speaking a little slower... ;) )

[@421sap]

God bless you in Jesus' Name Amen ✝️

[@serhiibudnik4379]

I use Blackhole for x key because it's annoying to have last char in register every time :) (keymap.set("n", "x", '"_x'))