command to paste into ex

[fREW Schmidt]

Hello All,

At some point I knew a command that you could use to paste visually selected text (or something along those lines) into the ex command box.  I couldn't find it in the docs but I presume I didn't know where to look.  Any tips?


Thanks!
-fREW

[Mr. Shawn H. Corey]

I not sure what an ex command box is but to paste the contents of the
clipboard into an ex command (also called the colon command line):

^R+

Note that some applications use the * buffer for the clipboard so the
command becomes:

^R*

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Shawn

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[Tim Chase]

as far as I know, there's no command to bring in the visually
selected text *without yanking first*. However, once you have it
yanked into a register, you can do as Shawn suggested with the
control+R followed by the register identifier

:help c_CTRL-R

-tim

[fREW Schmidt]

Thanks, both of you!

What about going (almost) the other direction; I typically type a search with / when I mean to do :s/.  Is there a way to fix that?

-fREW

[Gary Johnson]

Sure. The last search string is saved in the / register, so after
you've typed

:s/

you can then type Ctrl-R followed by / and your search string will
appear after the :s/. See also

:help quote/

Regards,
Gary

[fREW Schmidt]

Awesome!

Thanks Gary.

-fREW