Dimitriy V. Masterov wrote:
Thank you very much for your suggestion. I'm still having trouble
yanking the highlighted text instead of the line the cursor was on.
I was able to do something like this in jEdit using
textArea.getSelectedText(). Is there something analogous for Vim?
There are three ways to "highlight text" (I'm guessing that you actually
mean to visually select text):
V -- select linewise
v -- select characterwise
ctrl-v -- select a block
There are a number of things that you can do to select text; the easiest
perhaps is to use the anonymous register.
Try
move cursor to lefthand corner of block
ctrl-v
move cursor to righthand corner of block
y
move cursor to target location for lefthand corner of p ut
p
One can also yank to a register ("ay to yank to register a, for example).
One can put from a register ("ap , for example).
This works, and has for ages. So, if its not working for you, please
tell us exactly what you're doing.
If it continues not to work, it is likely that some option you have set
is interfering. In that case, try
vim -u NONE somefile
:set nocp
(try example above)
Regards,
Chip Campbell
