Re: Yank part of line?

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/13 08:15, stosss wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:29 AM, John Beckett <johnb.beckett@gmail.com>
>> 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
>

Thanks Tony

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