On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:44:11 PM UTC+1, Bee wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 12:43:22 AM UTC-8, LittleQ wrote:
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> > it should be ‘single quote’, so it’s ‘<, ‘> not `<, `>
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> I know '< works for lines, but my attempt to use `< is to select a character
> range.
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> :help `<
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> '< `< To the first line or character of the last selected Visual area in the
> current buffer.
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> Is there a way to write the CHARACTER selection to stdout? for use by pbcopy
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> Bill
Ex-commands always act linewise on the range of lines you type between the :
and the command name (or before the command name in a script).
To act on a visual selection you could type "+y in Visual mode, but using
:normal would defeat this because hitting : in Visual mode goes out of Visual
and places you in command-line mode with :'<,'> before the cursor, so that the
ex-command you're about to type will act linewise on the just unselected Visual
selection. You can act characterwise on an object or a motion by including the
object or motion command after "+y in the operand of :normal, e.g.:
:normal "+yW
will yank to the clipboard (i.e. "copy") the WORD at the cursor with no
surrounding space. (Similarly, just :normal yW would yank it to the "unnamed"
register.) Then you would have to find out how to put that out to your pbcopy
command. One possibility (in a script) would be
normal yW
$put
$,$w !pbcopy
$del
remembering that the $put command will add the register linewise after the last
line (thus creating a new line) so the $ line number in the last two commands
above will be one more than in the $put command. I haven't checked where the
cursor ends up at the end of this snippet.
The above snippet is valid because a WORD will never span more than one line.
How to make it work for a multi-line characterwise yank is left as an exercise
to the reader. (Hint: see "help line()" and ":help :execute")
Best regards,
Tony.
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