* Dryden <kouzennoki@gmail.com> [2015-03-02 15:39]:
> I was surprised to find that a visual yank (select a piece of a line
> of text, press y to yank) will copy not only the text that is
> visually selected, but also the one character under the cursor.
well.. why should a selected character NOT be included by a copy?
> So for instance you have this text selected up to the period.
> But the text also includes the space when you visually select
> it using "v" and then copy it into the default register.
sorry.. it's an unclear example.
> And pasting it then reveals the additional space. I had pasted using "0P.
maybe you didnt see that the cursor was on the space
so it had been included in the copy (as expected)?
> Is this expected or wanted or default behaviour?
> Should I be dealing with this, ie. always select
> one character less than what I want?
> Or is it a bug of some kind?
> Please advise.
well.. which version are you using on which system?
and can you give a reproducible example?
Sven
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