Question

I want to share named register buffers across MacVim windows (as I would across buffers within a single instance). In other words, let’s say I mark a position, m, and go somewhere else:

I yank some text into register a, from current point to ‘m: “a’m

Then I go to another window (no, I dont mean another split view in the same
window…) and want to paste: “ap

What is a good way to share named registers across all instances?

Answer 1

You should take a look at the YankRing plug-in. It “maintains a history of previous yanks, changes and deletes.” I think it will do what you want.