Another way: yy@" In other words, execute the " register (what you just copied) as a macro. In the same vein, yy@0 would work as well (the 0 register is t

Another way: yy@" In other words, execute the " register (what you just copied) as a macro. In the same vein, yy@0 would work as well (the 0 register is the last yank). Also, what do you mean without a native map structure? Vimscript has Dictionaries just fine.