Re: i_CTRL-R to the end of current line (and related stuff)

2015-09-11 17:06 GMT+03:00 Tim Chase <vim@tim.thechases.com>:
> On 2015-09-11 09:34, David Fishburn wrote:
>> 1. How do I find in the help where it says I can do i_CTRL-R
>> followed by CTRL-w
>
> You're confusing i_CTRL-R & c_CTRL-R_CTRL-W
>
> The help on the first one talks about its use in insert-mode ("i")
> and the second one is about the particular sub-use in the
> command-line ("c").
>
>> 2. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can do i_CTRL-R followed
>> by something like y$ to get to the end of the line in some way. I
>> was thinking I could do this using the expression register.
>> i_CTRL-R= then do something like y$, but that didn't work. If I
>> can do something along that line, then that opens the door to using
>> whatever standard Vim keys I need.
>
> I don't know of anything easy (out-of-the-box) that gets the
> *remainder* of the line. It's pretty straight forward to get the
> *entire* line using the expression register:
>
> <c-r>=getline('.')<cr>
>
> You can get fairly close to what you want with
>
> :cnoremap <f3> <c-r>=getline('.')[col('.'):]<cr>

This must be col('.')-1. Remember that columns start with 1, indexes
start with zero.

>
> which will insert the contents of the current line from the cursor to
> the end. You'd have to do some fancier twiddling to get the
> entire current word through the end of the line.
>
> -tim
>
>
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