Re: Visual selection via :global

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 06:40:17PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2020-07-24 04:43, Manas wrote:
> >
> > I want to yank those lines in order to paste somewhere else. In this
> > particular case, I wanted to send it to someone.
>
> Ah, the typical idiom here is to empty a register and then
> yank-appending (yank into a capital-letter-named register) each of
> the matching lines like
>
> :let @a='' | g/^-/y A
>
It worked like a charm. Apparently, the right command was `:g/^-/y A`
instead of `:g/^-/normal yy`. Although I am not able understand the use
of `A` after `y`. Can you please explain that?

Once again thanks a lot for your help!
--
Manas
CSAM Undergraduate | 2022
IIIT-Delhi, India

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