Haven't been able to figure this out...
So I usually like to select a word (say, albatross) and copy it to a register using v i w y, which–as I understand it–copies it into the * register.
Then I want to paste it back over another word (sparrow), so I'll do v i w p.
But often I'll want to paste the original word (albatross) over yet another word (osprey), but when I try to repeat my past commands, the pasted value comes out as sparrow, not albatross. This, I know, is because when the text is deleted before being pasted, it's copied into the * register, overwriting albatross with sparrow.
I thought I could work around this by using named registers, so I tried copying with v i w " 1 y and pasting with v i w " 1 p, but that just reproduces my original problem with the * register using the "1 register.
To all you VIM ninjas out there, what am I doing wrong? I'd like to be able to quickly yank some arbitrary text (preferably using the * register, as it saves me two keystrokes) and paste that original value n times afterwards at any point in the document.
How is something like this done efficiently?
