stosss wrote: > This appears to be the only thing in help that seems to imply > you can yank part of a line. But I can't figure out how to > make that work. Am I wrong about this? Is the only way to > yank part of a line in visual mode only or search and replace > if one gets technical? > > (text from :help y)
An example of what is wanted would help make sense of this. Do you mean in a script? Yank which part of a line (how defined)? In normal mode, you can of course move the cursor to somewhere within the line and type y$ to yank to the end, or y0 to yank to the beginning, and lots more things. John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
