Cut and paste multiple lines in vim

Question

I\'m running vim 7.3 on a Mac 10.7.2 and I\'m having some trouble cutting and pasting several lines.

On my old Linux setup (which was stolen so I don\'t know versions)

Answer 1

I agree with @Ben S. that this is the preferred way to accomplish this but if you are just looking to replicate your old behavior you can remap dd to append to a specified register, and then map p to paste from that register and clear it.
This will have the disadvantage of causing p to only work with things deleted using dd (using d} to delete to the end of the paragraph would not put the text in the correct register to be pasted later).

Add the following to your vimrc

noremap dd "Ddd             "Appends the contents of the current line into register d
noremap p "dp:let @d="" "Pastes from register d and then clears it out

if you don't want pasting to clear out the contents of the register

noremap p "dp               "Paste from register d 

but this will cause that register to grow without ever clearing it out