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Alex R. Young
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May 14, 2015
Putting Text in Insert and Replace Mode
One of my colleagues asked me how to paste
over
text in Vim. There are three steps to this:
Enter the right mode (Replace):
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Invoke the Insert/Replace mode’s “insert register contents” command:
CTRL-R
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