Re: yanking a certain part of a line based on a regex (vim scripting)

On Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 9:31:13 PM UTC-6, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to yank a certain part of a line (the cursor is positioned
> on that line) from the position of the cursor to the point of the
> line where a certain regex matches into a register. The target positon
> is positioned on the right.
>
> "into a register" is not the problem here ;)
>
> I thought of something like
>
> :yt<regex>
>
> but I didn't find a 't'-movement command, which allows a target
> position defined by a regex.
>

y/pattern
(and then hit Enter to complete the search)

If you want to include the matched pattern as well:

y/pattern/e

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