With that anything you have ever yanked or deleted is in the ring and when you paste something you can easily rotate through the items in the ring. Basically you type 'p' to paste and if that's not what you wanted you keep pressing ctrl-p until you get what you want.
I used it (YankRing) for some time, but it was never consistent. The plus point is that it works across terminal, otoh often "p" did not work, so i would have to do "YRShow" and select.
Often this is used, but everything you delete gets copied to your clipboard.
set clipboard=unnamed
So i prefer to map C-c and C-x (or whatever) to copy/cut to clipboard.
" regardless of clipboard option, c-c copies selection to clip
vmap <C-c> "+y
" cut into clipboard
vmap <C-x> "+d
" copy to clipboard, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4767227 , use 3 \y to copy 3 lines
map <leader>y "+yy
" paste from clipboard
map <leader>p "+p
" delete to black hole register, not going to clipboard etc
nnoremap <leader>d "_d
vnoremap <leader>d "_d
I've also mapped a key to write selected lines to a file, and another to read from it.
With that anything you have ever yanked or deleted is in the ring and when you paste something you can easily rotate through the items in the ring. Basically you type 'p' to paste and if that's not what you wanted you keep pressing ctrl-p until you get what you want.