vim Multiple Registers

1             "ayy             yy puts the current line in the a register

                  When you use the uppercase versino of a register ,say  "Ayy ,you append the text to what is already in the register 

2            To get an idea of  what  the registers contain,execute the following command:

:registers

               You can display the contents of specific register by giving them as an argument to the :registers command,For example :

:registers a

3             Special Registers

0             The last yanked text

-               The last small delete

.               The last inserted text

%             The name of the current file

#                The name of the alternate file

/                  The last search string

:                 The last ":" command

=              An expression

_              The black hole

*               The text selected with the mouse

4                   Editing a Specific File

To edit a specific file in this list,you need the follwing command:

:argument 2

5                 Changing the File List

You can change this list by specifying a new list to the :args command,For example:

:args alpha.c beta.c gamma.c

After executeing this command ,you start editing alpha.c the next file is teta.c and so on.

6                  The +cmd Argument 

Suppose that you want to start editing a file at line97.You can start Vim and execute a 97G,or you can tell

Vim to start editing with the cursor on line 97,You can do this by using the option +linenumber on the comand line ,For example:

$gvim +97 file.c

You can also use the +cmd to search for a string by using +/string on the command line.

To start editing a file with the cursor position on the first containing #include,for instance,use this command

$vim +/#include file.c

Finally ,you can put any command-mode command after the plus sign

These ohter commands can takes a +cmd:

:next [+cmd]

:wnect [+cmd]

:previous [+cmd]

....

7             Global Marks

The marks a-z local to the file 

The uppercase marks A-Z differ .They are global.They mark not only the location within the file,but alse the fiel itself 

  Take a look at example,You are editing the file one.c and place the mark A in it ,You then go on to edit file two.c .

When you execute the jmp-to-mark-A command ('A),the Vim editor will switch you from two.c file to one.c and postion the 

cursor on the mark

9         Advanced Text Entry

When you are entering text in insert mode ,you can execute a number of different commands.For example

CTRL-U erases the entire line CTRL-W deletes the word before the cursor

10              Inserting Text

If you type CTRL-A ,the editor inserts the text you typed the last time you were in insert mode

The CTRL-@ command does a CTRL-A and then exits insert mode

11               The CTRL-V command is used to quote  the next character,In other words,any  special meaning the character 

has ,it will be ignored .For example CTRL-V<Esc> inserts an escape.You can also use the command CTRL-vdigits to 

insert the character number digits.For example ,the character number 64 is @.So CTRL-v64 insert @.The CTRL-vdigits

uses "decimal" digits by default,but you can also insert the "hex" digits,For example:

CTRL-v123

and 

CTRL-vx7b

12               CTRL-Y command insets the characher above the cursor ,

                   CTRL-E command inserts the character below teh cursor

13       Insert a Register

The command CTRL-Rregister inserts the text in the register .If it contains characters such as <BS>

or ohter special characters,they are interpreted as if they had been typed from the keyboard .If you do not want this to happen (oyou really want the <BS>

to intsert in the text),use the command CTRL-R CTRL-R register

First you enter the following line:

All men^H^H^Hpeople are  created equal

To enter the backspace chararcters(which show up as ^H),you need to type CTRL-V<BS> or CTRL-V CTRL-H