In a nutshell, I want the following:
- y(ank) actually writes the yanked text to a line in a text file, maybe in your .vim directory
- that line is prefixed with the name of the register, so "qyy yields
q>my line of text
- p(ut) gets the expected result from that file
The reasoning is to get more of a 'system wide' vim buffer to solve this problem:
Sharing Vim Yank Register
Best Answer
I had the same question. I found following simple solution:
Edit your .vimrc file. Add the lines
and make sure the directory ~/tmp is in place.
Open two instances of vim. If you now highlight a portion of text in one instance and hit CTRL+y and then hit CTRL+p or CTRL+SHIFT+p in the other instance, you should get what you want.
Obviously, the key combinations could be modified to whatever you like.
This needs
cat
andtee
; it should work on any Mac/Linux machine.