Hi Bram, On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 6:25 AM Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yegappan wrote: > > > A count can be specified before or after the first letter of the > > yy, dd, cc, >>, << and !! commands. This is not mentioned in > > the Vim help. There are a couple of discussions regarding this: > > > > https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/31428/removing-multiple-lines-d3d-vs-3dd > > https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2543/how-can-i-map-dcountd > > > > The opengroup Vi specification indirectly mentions this: > > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/vi.html#tag_20_152_13_02 > > > > It would be good to mention this in the Vim help. > > We can add something below ":help operator". It already mentions that a > count on the operator and a count on the motion is multiplied. How > about this: > > *motion-count-multiplied* > If the motion includes a count and the operator also had a count before it, > the two counts are multiplied. For example: "2d3w" deletes six words. > *operator-doubled* > When doubling the operator it operates on a line. When using a count, before > or after the first character, that many lines are operated upon. Thus `3dd` > deletes three lines. A count before and after the first character is > multiplied, thus `2y3y` yanks six lines. >
Looks good to me. Regards, Yegappan -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CAAW7x7mFuLSmAYVo7QT54_8xB_dTHK4TP3d7iGAFGTO70b%2BSbw%40mail.gmail.com.
