Copy and paste content from one file to another file in vi

Question

I am working with two files, and I need to copy a few lines from one file and paste into another file. I know how to copy (yy) and paste (p) in the same file. But that doesn

Answer 1

Here's one way to do it;

• Start Vim and open file1 which is the file you're working on.
• :e file2 which will bring up file2, the file you want to copy lines from.
• locate the lines you want to copy. If it's three lines, you hit 3yy
• :b1 this will switch to buffer 1, where file1 is
• figure out where you want to insert the lines you yanked, and hit p

You could have both files viewable too. Split the screen with e.g. Ctrl + w s.

As for cutting, d cuts and places the cut stuff in the yank buffer. dd will "cut" a line.