How can i paste in escape mode of gvim

Question

I want to paste some word into command area of gvim. (in escape mode)

Say for example i have copied some search text from somewhere else

and now i want to search a huge string.

/howToPasteSomeHugeWord

Possible duplicate of [How to paste yanked text into Vim command line?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3997078/how-to-paste-yanked-text-into-vim-command-line) — heijp06, Dec 28 '17 at 10:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '17 at 23:18

If your pattern was copied from your browser it is placed on register +, so you can start searching by typing / then Ctrl-r +

If you copied some vim selection with y you can use: /Ctrl-r 0

You can also use any register in any mode, for example, you find a cool function and want to test it on vim you can do

:@+

The above command will execute wherever you have in your clipboard

If you want to copy your last command to clipboard you can do

:let @+ = @:

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