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		guns on Aug 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advanced tricks with vim registers Give regbuf a try too: simpler implementation and features a buffer for previewing and editing registers. [1]: https://github.com/tyru/regbuf.vim

kjell on Aug 11, 2011 [–]

To me it wasn't obvious, but with yankring after you hit p you can paste from older registers with ^p. Yankring then replaces "0 with "1. Another ^p replaces "1 with "2.

So by repeatedly hitting ^p after a paste you can cycle back quite a ways. Way easier than ":reg, now where did that go?"

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