visual select makes even less sense. better to just use emacs then. pon, 6. mar 2023. 21:28 Owajigbanam Ogbuluijah <[email protected]> је написао/ла:
> I often consider the cursor as the left edge of the block. This way, > yanking backwards makes sense. Ensure the left edge of your cursor is > outside (i.e. "right-bounding") the text you want to yank. Then the > solution in Salman Halim's answer makes sense. > > This works for all cases except when you are at EOL. For the EOL case, > there's a config which allows the cursor to go beyond EOL — can't remember > it off the top of my head now, but it's there. Once you have that setup, > the solution in my first paragraph should work. > > If both of these don't *feel right* to you, you could always visually > select with your motions, then yank. > > > Best, > Igbanam > > On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 6:23 PM Igor Lerinc <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i'm saying that: backward yank doesn't include the ] where your cursor >> currently is >> >> so i always lose that one last character. >> i already have easymotion plugin, and that's why i just use 'f', even >> tought i'm familiar with F for backwards, but just want to do less >> keystrokes, that's whole point right? >> >> i understand, that pointer needs to be in that position, in order to be >> able to insert before and after cursor , with *i* and *a* . >> but why can't it copy that one front char in front of it if it's last >> char in a word? >> >> what happens when i try to copy is i lose that last char from word. >> and that alone, is making Vim useless for speedy work (tought, i wouldn't >> complain about other features, just that, this slows me down very much) >> >> On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 5:51:09 PM UTC+1 Salman Halim wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 11:17 AM Igor Lerinc <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> imagine i have line of text: >>>> echo "Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"] . "." . >>>> "<br/><br/>"; >>>> >>>> my cursor is *█* >>>> >>>> echo *█*"Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"] . "." . >>>> "<br/><br/>"; >>>> >>>> and then, i move cursor to ] with *f* >>>> it will go before last character in word >>>> >>>> echo "Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"*█*] . "." . >>>> "<br/><br/>"; >>>> >>>> and if i want to yank it backwards to $ >>>> i need to move my cursor to left and only then yank it backwards >>>> >>>> i really hate that 'feature', why cursor can't just sit and go to the >>>> last character in word? >>>> >>> >>> Igor, >>> >>> It's possible I didn't fully understand the problem you're facing. Are >>> you saying that you aren't sure about how to yank backwards or are you >>> saying that the backward yank doesn't include the ] where your cursor >>> currently is? >>> >>> If the first, then just as 'f' and 't' move forward to a given >>> character, 'F' and 'T' move backward. In your case, you could just do >>> 'y2F$' (all without the quotes, of course). >>> >>> Additionally, you could use the EasyMotion plugin ( >>> https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3526) if you have a >>> lot of $ signs and don't want to try to count them before issuing the >>> command. >>> >>> If the second, then, yes, you have first move over a single character >>> before doing the yank. Perhaps you could create a mapping that moves you >>> over and does the yank? >>> >>> Hope this helps, >>> >>> Salman >>> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. >> Do not top-post! 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