Paste multiple yanked lines of words to another single line

[bemulima]

I don't find feature that paste multiple yanked lines of words to another single place. In my mind it will be very help for fast coding.

My goal is make from:

import test from './test';

export default {
  test,
}

to:

import test from './test';
import test_one from './test_one';
import test_two from './test_two';
import test_three from './test_three';
import test_four from './test_four';

export default {
 test, 
 test_one, 
 test_two, 
 test_three, 
 test_four, 
};

How I'm trying do it?

1. My start code:

import test from './test';

export default {
  test,
}

2. I adding a few imports so I do just yy4p:

import test from './test';
import test from './test';
import test from './test';
import test from './test';
import test from './test';

3. Changing the names of imported files manually

import test from './test';
import test from './test_one';
import test from './test_two';
import test from './test_three';
import test from './test_four';

4. Then replace test to new file names. On fourth t ctrl+down. Where [t] - selected cursors

import test from './[t]est';
import test from './[t]est_one';
import test from './[t]est_two';
import test from './[t]est_three';
import test from './[t]est_four';

5. Then ctrl+n for mark any selected line and yank y
6. Then move selected cursors to second t

import [t]est from './test';
import [t]est from './test_one';
import [t]est from './test_two';
import [t]est from './test_three';
import [t]est from './test_four';

7. ctrl+n and p in result:

import test from './test';
import test_one from './test_one';
import test_two from './test_two';
import test_three from './test_three';
import test_four from './test_four';

8. And on this step I want to replace contain of default so I select second t cursor ctrl+down and ctrl+n and y and Esc - for exit from mg979/vim-visual-multi

import [t]est from './test';
import [t]est_one from './test_one';
import [t]est_two from './test_two';
import [t]est_three from './test_three';
import [t]est_four from './test_four';

9. After go to line (3j) where test in default and viwp so in result I see another yanked value

export default {
  another_yanked_value,
}

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• Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04
• Vim Version: NVIM v0.9.4
• commit SHA/branch: latest

[mg979]

Which is the step that doesn't work for you? For me it works, except that at step 9 it pastes a block selection (probably not what you want), but you can just make it linewise with some mapping that changes the current register type, or add some empty lines before pasting.

:help vm-registers explains how to use registers.

[bemulima]

Thanks so much for answer! Create empty lines before pasting - it's good idea if you are know how many lines you need. But I would like at 9 step just paste yanked values from plugin. I lost yanked values of plugin at 8 step after Esc.

I'll keep looking at the documentation (vm-registers). Thank.