You should yank the text to the * or + registers: gg”*yG Explanation: gg to get the cursor to the first character of the file “*y to start a yank command to the register * from the first line, until… G to go the end of the file
You start recording by q<letter> and you can end it by typing q again. Recording is a really useful feature of Vim. It records everything you type. You can then replay it simply by typing @<letter>. Record search, movement, replacement… One of the best feature of Vim IMHO.
No need to explicitly go to the end of line before doing a, use A;Append text at the end of line [count] times <ESC>GA
This will ask you for the root password, then save your changes as you requested: Then type (L)oad at the prompt, to re-load the file after it is saved
The * register will do this. In Windows, + and * are equivalent. In unix there is a subtle difference between + and *: Under Windows, the * and + registers are equivalent. For X11 systems, though, they differ. For X11 systems, * is the selection, and + is the cut buffer (like clipboard). http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard * is probably what you want most of the time, so … Read more
(Edited to include commenter’s good additions:) D or its equivalent d$ will delete the rest of the line and leave you in command mode. C or c$ will delete the rest of the line and put you in insert mode, and new text will be appended to the line. This is part of vitutor and vimtutor, excellent “reads” for vim beginners.
The “* and “+ registers are for the system’s clipboard (:help registers). Depending on your system, they may do different things. For instance, on systems that don’t use X11 like OSX or Windows, the “* register is used to read and write to the system clipboard. On X11 systems both registers can be used. See :help x11-selection for more details, but basically the “* is … Read more
You need to create it. In most installations I’ve used it hasn’t been created by default. You usually create it as ~/.vimrc.