a'ight, does anyone really use any of those gazillion vim registers?

• nvim-peekup

  15 274 1.6 Lua

  👀 dynamically interact with vim registers

this can be easily changed, though I do remember having an argument why * and not ", but I don't have it off the top of my head now.

• vim-peekaboo

  11 1,108 0.0 Vim Script

  :eyes: " / @ / CTRL-R

Also cheek out the plugin vim-peekaboo which displays the content of all your registers when you're about to call one with "/@/.

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• wiki

  2 31 4.1 Python

As an example, you can cycle between the numbered registers by using a special feature of the dot command which is documented at the help tag "redo-register". I talk a little about it here.

• vim-fuzzy

  1 3 1.1 Vim Script

Also, FWIW, I wrote a plugin to fuzzy search through various sources of information. One of them are the Vim registers. It currently provides 3 mappings: " and @ in normal mode, and in insert mode. While the popup window is visible, it also provides another mapping () to toggle the type of the currently selected register between characterwise, linewise and blockwise.

• vim-startuptime

  16 551 7.9 Vim Script

  A plugin for profiling Vim and Neovim startup time.

I was intrigued by your question and, not that it matters, I have measure the profiling start-up times of vim-peekaboo and nvim-peekup. I have used both nvim --startup and vim-startuptime plugin and nvim-peekup turns out to be more than 4 times faster at startup: details here.

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