Accessing Register Contents

Now that we have learned how to yank text into a named register and review register contents, lets see how to retrieve values from registers.

Similar to the pattern for yanking text into a register, the pattern for accessing text in a register is:

"{name}

So, to paste the contents of register a into the buffer we would execute "ap.

To demonstrate, consider the following buffer and cursor position.

Our goal is to move the first line to the bottom of the buffer. We will accomplish this in a few steps. First, we will enter visual-line mode using V, then delete the selection and store it in register a using "ad:

Now move the cursor to the bottom of the buffer using G

and finally paste from register a: