On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Charles Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > stosss wrote: >> >> 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 >>> >>> > Two more techniques: > > * start at 'm'. press ctrl-v . move to 'r'. press y > * start at 'm'. press ma . move to 'r'. press y`a > > Regards, > Chip Campbell >
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