How to paste yanked text into the Vim command lineYes. Hit Ctrl-R then ". If you have literal control characters in what you have yanked, use Ctrl-R, Ctrl-O, ". Here is an explanation of what you can do with registers. What you can do with registers is extraordinary, and once you know how to use them you cannot live without them. Registers are basically storage locations for strings. Vim has many registers that work in different ways: 0 (yank reg
