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This is how you use ruby as your vim pasteboard buffer. For fun, and profit
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" Because we can use ruby as our pasteboard buffer (w/o support for newlines), damnit!
" Copy all lines
:1rubydo $x=""
:rubydo $x << $_;
" Will paste on line 6, the line needs to exist
:6rubydo $_=$x
" Copy from line 1 to line 6. Please note that you can even use instance variables.
:1rubydo temp=$_
:6rubydo $_=temp
" This _is_ rather useful, in some way.. I'll just figure it out. Maybe.
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