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Replace using VIM, reuse part of the search pattern

I am working with VIm and trying to set up a search and replace command to do some replacements where I can re-use the regular expression that is part of my search string. A simple example would be a ...
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Ex and Vi: buffers and regexes

I want to put regex matches to buffer but cannot get even simpler example y :.put myNewBuffer return msg [line] [put] [buffer] working ie how to put something to buffer? So to regular expressions ...
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lookbehind and using it with grep in Vi?

Trying to get into Vi (not Vim), after learning Vim. Vim has a lookabehind like /\(Not this\)\@<!$, how to do it in Vi? If I want to search recurvively down directory in Vim, I could do :vimgrep ...