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Copy & Paste over several files with vim?

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – Vim seems nice for most of the times and outperforms other editors in some categories. But what about Copy&Paste? (It seems to me that even MS DOS' EDIT.COM seems to outperform vim in this category.) Scenario 1: I have a software project, lots of directories and I want to move a function from one file to another. What is the most efficient way to do that? Scenario 2: I activate indentation. It seems in conflict with multi-line copy&paste. I remember seeing on the internet people suggesting to switch indentation off during this process. At the same time I even saw some weird mac (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 06/22/2012 – Made popular on 06/22/2012

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Support S3 Copy & Paste Crash 33 weeks 8 hours ago

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I've just frustratingly spend a couple of hours looking for some way to paste multiple items recently copied in one go. I.e copy a line copy another line copy a link then 'PASTE ALL' I've tries pastie glipper clipit diodon xlip xsel and nothing will do it. This seems like a really simple thing does anyone know of either an application that will do it or a python script or something?

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hi all.

i wondering if there any way to copy paste multiple command into single line.

for eg: command 1: go to dir.. cd /usr/lib... command 2:make a new folder in the dir.. mkdir 20121016 command 3:copy into new folder.. cp * 20121016

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[ubuntu] Copy paste? 32 weeks 19 hours ago

Hello! Just formatted my Mac to run Ubuntu purely :D

But I have a dilemma: how do I copy paste? I know I can highlight the text, right click, and say "copy" but that's cumbersome.

The good o'l command-c shortcut opens Dash Home.

So my question: is there a keyboard shortcut for copy/paste?

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Left-down-clicking in xterms starts the selection of something to be copy-pasted.

Double-left clicking selects a word.

Triple-left clicking selects a line.

All this works under unity in 11.04.

The problem is about when I try to copy along code from some web site with many code lines and paste it on notepad++

The problem is that the code paste with one very lone line Seems like no (no return after each line from the original code)

Please advice if some one have idea how to paste the code without to get one line ?

Example

I copy this:

Echo " option wait" Sleep 10 Echo "end"