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    <p>Let's say I've yanked 3 characters "foo" into my clipboard by using a visual select + yank, ie: 'vllly'</p> <p>Then I've moved my cursor to another character (let's call this character x) on line 5 which I'd like to replace with what I yanked previously, namely foo.</p> <p>I can use 'p' to paste foo after x, or 'P' to paste foo before x, but I want to <em>replace</em> x with foo.</p> <p>I can use 'vp' to replace x with foo, but this only works once, as it leaves me with x in my clipboard. In other words, if I move to my next occurrence of x and hit vp again, it doesn't replace it with foo.</p> <p>Sure, I could do a search / replace by using :s/x/foo/gc and then ignoring all occurrences of x that I don't wish to replace, but this is a little tedious to type, particularly when all I need to do is replace 2 or 3 occurrences of x that are very close to my cursor but not on the same line (ie: lines 2, 3 and 7).</p> <p>So currently I'm using :2,7s/x/foo/gc but I wonder if there is a way to move my cursor to x and hit [insert magic button here] to replace it with foo. And then I can move to my next occurrence of x and hit [magic button] again and boom, it's replaced x with foo again.</p> <p>As much as it pains me to use this analogy, imagine you're typing in notepad, and you select 3 characters, hit Ctrl+c to copy them into your clipboard, and then highlight x, and hit Ctrl+v to replace it with foo. Then you highlight another x, and hit Ctrl+v again, and so on.</p> <p>How do I do this in vim?</p>
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    1. COI think you'll find the best options here: http://superuser.com/questions/321547/how-do-i-replace-paste-yanked-text-in-vim-without-yanking-the-deleted-lines
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    2. CODid you mean `lll` or `hhh` rather than `kkk`? `k` is *up*.
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    3. COYup I meant lll my bad, thanks @ChrisMorgan
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