Aug 17, 2011
Copy & Paste Trick
Often you have hash keys in strings that you may need to copy many times. This can be cumbersome but thanks to vim, it's actually a fairly....efficient (correct diction?) process. Put your cursor anywhere on the string that represents the hash key and press ci' (notice the single quote at the end).
This stands for change inside some character like ' or < or { or [ etc. Now that deleted it so just go back to command mode, put your cursor wherever you want to paste and press either p or P.