How to insert the current filename into the contents in Vim

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After some searching, I got to know :echo @% displays the current filename in the bottom line of vim-screen.

I would like to dump the filename (with and without full path) into the contents of the file without leaving vim.

Is there any way to do this?

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The current filename is in the "% register, so you can insert it (while in insert mode) with <c-r>%; the full path can be inserted with <c-r>=expand("%:p"). You could make a macro of it if you use it often. For more, similar tricks, see :h expand and :h "=.

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You can do it with command line version of put:

:put z

The full syntax is :[line]pu[t] [x]. Please see :help :put for more information.

On a side note: Vim geeks' den is this way.

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Like @muru said, it doesn't seem to possible to exactly simulate the default status line when statusline is set as the code for rendering it does things that can't be specified in the statusline setting. It is possible to get pretty close, however. Here is a reasonable approximation of the way the default status line looks when ruler is enabled:

:set statusline=%f\ %h%w%m%r\ %=%(%l,%c%V\ %=\ %P%)

The main difference is the positioning of the line and column numbers. If it's possible to simulate the default spacing logic, I haven't been able to figure out a way to do it. Perhaps this will be close enough for your purposes.

I use a split version of this in my own .vimrc to place Syntastic status line info in the middle of what looks like a normal vim status line with ruler:

" start of default statusline
set statusline=%f\ %h%w%m%r\ 
" NOTE: preceding line has a trailing space character

" Syntastic statusline
set statusline+=%#warningmsg#
set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}
set statusline+=%*

" end of default statusline (with ruler)
set statusline+=%=%(%l,%c%V\ %=\ %P%)

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