On 13/01/13 08:15, stosss wrote:
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, John Beckett <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
An example could be in your reply above "move the cursor" I want to
put the cursor on "m" yank everything to "r" and I would do this in a
mapping and/or manually.
1) put the cursor on the m
2) to yank to the first r (the one in the middle of "cursor"):
yfr
2a) or to yank to the second r (at the end of "cursor")
y3e
(i.e. "yank to the end of the 3rd word") or
vfr;y
see
:help f
:help e
:help ;
Or you could set a Visual mode highlight to whatever you wanted to yank,
and just hit y (as in the last example above)
Or to yank just the word "cursor" you could place the cursor anywhere on
it, and then do
yiw
i.e. "yank inner word", see :help iw
This came from :help y and it doesn't say anything about yanking lines
so I was thinking it is implying yanking part of a line. Doing y$ and
y0 is good but what about yanking something not at the beginning or
end of a line?
*y* *yank*
["x]y{motion} Yank {motion} text [into register x]. When no
characters are to be yanked (e.g., "y0" in column 1),
this is an error when 'cpoptions' includes the 'E'
flag.
I think I have a visual mode method that will work even in a mapping
where the visual selection is done by the mapping without any manual
selection before executing the mapping. In visual mode on the example
I used above from your line I would do on your line:
In normal mode, you can of course move the cursor to somewhere
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The visual mode might be the best way unless that yank could be done
in normal mode.
It can: the y command (in Normal mode) expects a motion to tell it how
far to yank. There are a lot of possible motions, see :help motion.txt
Best regards,
Tony.
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