Re: Writing only the selected characters

On 2011-08-25, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I write only the selected characters of a line?
>
> Suppose I'm selecting the word 'foo' from the line 'foo bar', if I issue
> :'<,'>w ! xclip, the output of xclip -o is going to be 'foo bar' and not
> 'foo'...

I always use Charles Campbell's vis.vim script for this sort of
thing. With that plugin installed, you would visually select 'foo',
then type

:B w ! xclip

You can get the script at

http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=1195

Regards,
Gary

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