On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 06:40:17PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2020-07-24 04:43, Manas wrote: > > > > I want to yank those lines in order to paste somewhere else. In this > > particular case, I wanted to send it to someone. > > Ah, the typical idiom here is to empty a register and then > yank-appending (yank into a capital-letter-named register) each of > the matching lines like > > :let @a='' | g/^-/y A > It worked like a charm. Apparently, the right command was `:g/^-/y A` instead of `:g/^-/normal yy`. Although I am not able understand the use of `A` after `y`. Can you please explain that?
Once again thanks a lot for your help! -- Manas CSAM Undergraduate | 2022 IIIT-Delhi, India -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20200724000656.gzp3vydu2cotcebs%40nitro-5.
