Bram Moolenaar's presentation - Seven Habits of Effective Text Editing 2.0

On February 13th 2007, Bram Moolenaar gave a presentation on Vim (at Google office) - 'Seven habits of effective text editing 2.0'.

The news update is at Vim site and the links of the video and the pdf presentation can be found at vimannounce Yahoo group.

The pdf presentation is very short simple and still useful.

Very briefly it states:

1. Detect inefficiency
2. Find a quicker way
3. Make it a habit

and the seven habits are:

1. Moving around quickly
2. Don't type it twice
3. Fix it when it's wrong
4. A file seldom comes alone
5. Let's work together
6. Text is structured
7. Sharpen the saw
   

Copying contents of vim register

Following command copies the contents of register q to copy register
:let @*=@q
Once copied, these contents can be used any where else, by simple paste.

One example use is to update a macro.
Following command updates register q
:let @q="Paste-copied-contents-Then-edit-as-required"
which then can be fired/executed by @q in command mode.