On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> ^3fmv2tth"xy >> >> 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 >
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