Vim provides a variety of auto-completion features to do all your typing. To invoke the right one for the task is key to achieve " vim's mantra of minimalist typing" . All the below commands work on vanilla vim; no additional plugins are needed. The Basic Ones: Completing or Pasting from a register Ctrl-r <register> Inserting last inserted text Ctrl-a inserting last inserted text Copying characters above the cursor. Ctrl-y copying characters above the cursor
providing byte-size cheat-codes to scale the VIM Wall.