Re: Yank part of line?

stosss wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
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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