Copy paste text between different files
- open the file from which you want to copy in vim editor, vim file1
- go to top line to be copied
- press ESC and then press ma
- move cursor to the bottom line and then press y'a
- then type :split file2 ( don't forget colon )
- go to the line where you want to paste and then press p
- press :wq to exit second file.
- now open second file in vim. The lines will have pasted there.