How to paste yanked text to vim command-line?

Question

Hi is there any way I can paste the yanked text from a vim buffer to a vim command line, as I need to search for some file names which appear in current open text and I have to manually type the file name after :e

Answer 1

Yes you can use ctrl+r + " and can see this as a reference http://stackoverflow.com/questions/906535/how-to-copy-yanked-text-to-vi-command-prompt

Answer 2

You can do <C-r>" to paste from the default register or <C-r>a to paste from register a.

Answer 3

If your cursor is on the filename before you go to command mode use Ctrl-rCtrl-f.

You could also use the command-line window for this, and then edit the command line like you would in the file buffer.

See :help c_CTRL-R_CTRL-F and :help command-line-window for more.