Re: yanking from a different line

On Tue, July 17, 2012 09:12, Gautam wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sometimes I prefer to yank a line that I know is at a particular line
> number without actually moving the cursor to that line.
> e.g. if I was at line # 100 in the buffer, and wanted to yank line # 5; I
> would use:
> :5,5y
>
> This would yank line # 5 into the default register.
> Is there a better/alternative way to do this?
>
>
> Also is it possible to "remotely" yank a line into a specific register?
> I tried:
> :5,5"ay
>
> but it didn't change the contents of register 'a'.

The Ex command :yank takes an optional argument of the register, so use
:5y a
to yank line 5 into register a.

You can even do:
:5y a 10
to copy the following 10 lines (e.g. lines 5-14) into register a

regards,
Christian

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