Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· julianchurchill

Vim paste in command mode - the power of CTRL-R

Use CTRL-R " when entering a command in command mode to paste the current paste buffer contents. Substitute " for a buffer name, % for current filename, / for last search term, + for the X clipboard or a host of other substitutions.

CTRL-R also works in insert mode, no more skipping back to normal mode to paste!

Check out the vim documentation for CTRL-R -http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/insert.html#i_CTRL-R