Hi, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: > From: Jürgen Krämer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Copy a line of text without the LF > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:56:24 +0200 > > > > Meino Christian Cramer schrieb: > > > I am using vim 7.0.42 on a Linux system. > > > > > > I want copy a complete line of text *without+ the final LF at the > > > end, so it is possible to insert it elsewhere in the midth of text. > > [snip] > > > > just use > > > > y$ > > nice to now, that there is just another extra command... :)
it's not a command, it's a combination of a command (yank) and a motion (to the end of line). > BUT: For what hopefully logical reason "y/$" does not work? "/$" is a different motion than "$" -- in general, "/" as a motion puts the cursor before the start of the matched text. As "$" is a zero-width anchor and the cursor can't be positioned after the last character on a line VIM uses the character before the match as "start of matched text". Exception: With ":set virtualedit=all" the cursor can be placed beyond the end of line and your command would have worked as expected. > And more > important: What is executed instead of one would extrapolate from > knowing y/<something other than $>. Here again the cursor is put before the start of the matched text, e.g., y/a would yank up to but not including the next "a". If you want to include the "a" you will have to use offsets, i.e. in this special case y/a/e or more generally y/amore text/s+1 would include the "a". Have a look at ":help search-offset" for more information on offsets in searches. > Or -- exaggerated to the limit -- do I need another extra command to > search/yank for example a "m" at line's end ??? y/m/e 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)
