Deleting In Vim and Then Pasting Without new Line

Question

Many times in vim I would like to delete a line completely, so I use dd. However, I then need to paste that line into some other position within a line, but this inserts a newline before pasting, therefore, making it very difficult for me to get the desired result. For example,

while( pasteInHere )
{
    cin >> n; // Delete this line completely with dd
}

when I do this with the above code I get:

while( pasteInHere )
cin >> n; // Delete this line completely with dd
{
}

which is very far from the result I want...how can I suppress this newline behaviour, or use another method that does it very efficiently? I don't think d$ is good because I not only have to go to beginning of line, but if I want to delete the empty line too I need to delete it in another register, I feel like there should be an easier way! Thanks.

possible duplicate of Can I delete an entire line, except the line break? — EvergreenTree, Jul 14 '15 at 20:37
it is not a duplicate, as I said I want a more efficient way then going to beginning of line, also I actually want to remove the complete line with the newline character....not just the contents of the line — fYre, Jul 14 '15 at 20:42
Oh, I do see what you mean now. It just wasn't very clear to me what you were trying to accomplish. — EvergreenTree, Jul 14 '15 at 20:48
0D delete line except line break. And than gJ to join lines. Now you can put the text without break line and no empty line. — Alex Kroll, Jul 14 '15 at 22:02

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '15 at 15:53

You can go anywhere in the line above the line you want to delete, then press JD and paste it with p at the desired point.

J joins the two lines and moves you at the start of the text you wanted to delete. This deletes a new-line character and the indentation of the line you want to move.
D deletes from the current cursor position to the end of the line but preserves the new-line character.

Hint: You can use :pu if you deleted with D or yanked with y$ and you want to paste with a new line.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 23 '20 at 18:29

Paste without new line

Put this in your .vimrc file:

" Paste yanked line without line breaks before/after cursor position
nnoremap gP i<CR><Esc>PkJxJx
nnoremap gp a<CR><Esc>PkJxJx

Example:

<span style="color:">danger</span>

Now you can type gp to insert #D51B3F after color: while my cursor is at : in Normal mode.

Yank without new line

Use flukus' answer:

" Delete current line without yanking the line breaks
nnoremap dil ^d$

as acronym of delete inner line. This also gets rid of leading indentation.

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 14 '15 at 21:35

You can achieve something that works quite well with an imap. Add the following to your vimrc:

inoremap <c-a> <c-r>1<esc>k$Jxi

This will create a mapping for CTRL-a that will paste the last deleted text (with dd or similar). If you prefer, you may of course use a different key for the mapping.

References:

:h i_CTRL-R
:h quote1
:h J

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 15 '15 at 06:15

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Not really simpler, but slightly more efficient, and you can also create normal-mode maps for both sequence:

yanking: go to the line you want to move, then ^D"_dd
pasting: go to the word you want to replace, then viwp

answered Jul 15 '15 at 06:15

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score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 21 '15 at 07:08

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This comes up for me a bit too, never thought to optimize it before but this mapping works:

nmap dil ^d$

dil is "delete in line", similar to diw, di", etc.

edited Jul 21 '15 at 07:08

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answered Jul 16 '15 at 00:14

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Giorgos Xou · Answer 6 · 2022-06-11T15:41:38.067

Pasting deleted line, without new-line:

Althought It took me quite a while, thankfully I evetually found out how (PS. i'm new to VIM)

For VI\VIM and .vimrc, use:

nnoremap dil dd:let @+=matchlist(strtrans(@+),'[ ]*\zs.*\ze\^@')[0]<CR>

For NVIM and init.lua (like me), use:

vim.keymap.set('n', 'dil', "dd:let @+=matchlist(strtrans(@+),'[ ]*\\zs.*\\ze\\^@')[0]<CR>")

Demonstration

Regex explained

Regex [ ]*\zs.*\ze\^@:
- [ ]*\zs look (behind) for potential spaces
- .* and then match anything, only if
- \ze\^@ at the end there is a ^@

References

Regex Look behind\front explained
"Delete in line" (I stole the word "dil" from there hehe)
remove newlines from a register in vim? (Where i got the idea from)
Is there a function which can return a list of matching text for groups in a regex?

This relies on @+ which is a clipboard register and is only written by dd based on the 'clipboard' settings. Instead, you might want to use @" or v:register — D. Ben Knoble, Jun 13 '22 at 22:04

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited Jul 21 '15 at 07:08

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You can select the text you want to copy by pressing v and then take it into buffer by pressing y and then paste it anywhere by p. It don't inserts any new line.