On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 08:18:23PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> The ex "y" command yanks and can take an optional register to yank
> to. By default, your
>
> :g/^-/normal yy
>
> (using the normal-mode) would be the same as ex-mode "y" command:
>
> :g/^-/y
>
> which yanks, overwriting the
On 2020-07-24 05:36, Manas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 06:40:17PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> > :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`.
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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
>
On 2020-07-24 04:43, Manas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 05:57:51PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2020-07-24 03:48, Manas wrote:
>>> Hi folks, I have a markdown file containing a couple of
>>> headings and some pointers as shown below.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> # Heading 1
>>> - pointer 1
>>> -
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 05:57:51PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2020-07-24 03:48, Manas wrote:
> > Hi folks, I have a markdown file containing a couple of headings and
> > some pointers as shown below.
> >
> > ```
> > # Heading 1
> > - pointer 1
> > - pointer 2
> > - pointer 3
> >
> > ## Heading
On 2020-07-24 03:48, Manas wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a markdown file containing a couple of headings and
> some pointers as shown below.
>
> ```
> # Heading 1
> - pointer 1
> - pointer 2
> - pointer 3
>
> ## Heading 2
> - pointer 4
> - pointer 5
> ```
>
> I wanted to visual select all pointers
Hi folks, I have a markdown file containing a couple of headings and
some pointers as shown below.
```
# Heading 1
- pointer 1
- pointer 2
- pointer 3
## Heading 2
- pointer 4
- pointer 5
```
I wanted to visual select all pointers only. So what I did was
`:g/^-/normal V` but it only selects the
