Visual select / paste behaviour
Hi, Take the following example: file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? On a related note, when I have 'myid' selected and I want to replace it with the contents of the yank buffer, I press 'p'. But the original contents of the yank buffer are then replaced my 'myid', i.e. the text that was replaced in the paste operation. How do I change this behaviour? Do I have to write a macro to override the paste behaviour in visual mode or is there another way? Thanks. cheers, roel
Re: Visual select / paste behaviour
Hi, Roel Vanhout wrote: Take the following example: file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? to be exact 'w' in visual word does NOT select a word but it extends the current selection to the START of the next word (for a definition of word see :help word). So in your case 'viw' would be better. This starts visual mode and selects the Inner Word. This works on any letter of myid and does not select the following quote. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)
Re: Visual select / paste behaviour
file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? Well, the answer to your question is that there's a setting called 'iskeyword' to which you can add and from which you can remove characters. However, by default, it doesn't include the double-quote character. What you're seeing is an expression of that range from the drop-point m *up to, but not including* where the cursor is (on the quote). If you follow your vw example with y to yank it, and then paste it elsewhere, you'll see that the selection was accurately just myid, not myid On a related note, when I have 'myid' selected and I want to replace it with the contents of the yank buffer, I press 'p'. But the original contents of the yank buffer are then replaced my 'myid', i.e. the text that was replaced in the paste operation. How do I change this behaviour? The best solution I know is to use _p instead of just p. This sends the deleted text (the stuff you previously had highlighted) into the black-hole register, leaving your default register untouched. Alternatively, register 0 is the last yanked text register, which is unaffected by such deletes--only yanks. Thus, you could use (and easily map) 0p to always paste the last thing you yanked. This has two side effects of which it's best to be aware: It does change your default (unnamed) register to the most recently replaced text; and if you delete something (rather than yank something) with the intent to use it later for overwriting a visual block, you'll get unexpected results, as you're pasting the last *yanked* thing, rather than the last *deleted* thing. For more info, you can read at :help _ :help 0 :help v_p Hope this helps you find a solution to what you're trying to do. -tim
Re: Visual select / paste behaviour
Tim Chase wrote: file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? Well, the answer to your question is that there's a setting called 'iskeyword' to which you can add and from which you can remove characters. However, by default, it doesn't include the double-quote character. What you're seeing is an expression of that range from the drop-point m *up to, but not including* where the cursor is (on the quote). If you follow your vw example with y to yank it, and then paste it elsewhere, you'll see that the selection was accurately just myid, not myid Thanks, this is indeed the setting I'm looking for. However it seems that the w motion *is* inclusive, at least on my installation. Here's what :set iskeyword says: iskeyword=@,48-57,_,192-255 (which is the default, I did a 'set nocp' to make sure it was reset to the default, as per the docs). Now when I repeat putting the cursor on 'm' and pressing 'w', the is selected, as confirmed by yanking and pasting and seeing 'myid' being pasted. This is not what the documentation says should happen, so I looking around for any mappings of w to something but as far as I can tell, no such mapping is available. For the record, I'm using gvim 7 of may 7th, according to :version. I've tried starting gvim without loading a vimrc, but I get the same behaviour. Anyone else seeing this? Am I picking up side effects from other settings somehow? On a related note, when I have 'myid' selected and I want to replace it with the contents of the yank buffer, I press 'p'. But the original contents of the yank buffer are then replaced my 'myid', i.e. the text that was replaced in the paste operation. How do I change this behaviour? The best solution I know is to use _p For more info, you can read at :help _ :help 0 :help v_p Hope this helps you find a solution to what you're trying to do. Thanks, I'll investigate this, I think I can work something out from here. cheers, roel
Re: Visual select / paste behaviour
[Resending this because I noticed that the original mail had been encoded with base64 by either my mail client or a server on the way to the mailing list.] Hi, Roel Vanhout wrote: Take the following example: file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? to be exact 'w' in visual word does NOT select a word but it extends the current selection to the START of the next word (for a definition of word see :help word). So in your case 'viw' would be better. This starts visual mode and selects the Inner Word. This works on any letter of myid and does not select the following quote. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)
Re: Visual select / paste behaviour
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:48:21AM EDT, Jürgen Krämer wrote: [Resending this because I noticed that the original mail had been encoded with base64 by either my mail client or a server on the way to the mailing list.] Hi, Roel Vanhout wrote: Take the following example: file file_id=myidc:\test.txt/file When the cursor is on the 'm' of 'myid' and I press 'vw', a word is selected in visual mode. However, the at the end of 'myid' is also selected. How do I change the list of 'word separators'? to be exact 'w' in visual word does NOT select a word but it extends the current selection to the START of the next word (for a definition of word see :help word). So in your case 'viw' would be better. This starts visual mode and selects the Inner Word. This works on any letter of myid and does not select the following quote. cool. Thanks cga
