Re: map with empty yank

On Di, 28 Jan 2014, Carlos Pita wrote:
> thanks for your prompt reply! It's still not clear to me whether
> yanking a non-existent text object always raises an error or not.
> cpoptions E seems to apply to y<motion> but it's not clearly stated
> (at least, I can't find that statement) what happens with y<object>.

I think, there is no such thing as an empty text object. If the text
object isn't valid, Vim raises an error and this also happens in normal
mode (you can see, by :set visualbell and see how the terminal flashes
when doing yi< and the cursor not being within a <> pair.

This errors causes, that your mapping will be aborted.

Best,
Christian
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