you could also, from anywhere inside the double quotes, type "pyi" (that's double-quote, followed by 'p', 'y', 'i', and another double quote).
this says, into the p register, (y)ank (a) double-quoted text object. this works for all sorts of things: you could get all the text in the tag (from after < to before >) by typing yi< see :help objects for more on text objects -- there are about a million of them and they're a wonderful creation. On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Shade - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Charles and Agathoklis, both methods worked perfectly. I > forgot to enter the visual method to select a zone. > > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Dec 02, at 09:35 Charles Campbell wrote: >> > >> > Shade wrote: >> > > Hello everyone. I'm gonna paste an example of what i want to do. Let's >> > > imagine that I have this code: >> > > >> > > <p id="already_registered"> >> > > >> > > And i wanna copy id="already_registered" in a register, for example >> > > the register "P". How can i do that, and how can i paste it back >> > > later? >> > > >> > I'm sure that there are a lot of ways. Using normal mode (ie. >> manually): >> > >> > First method: >> > >> > put cursor on the "i" in "id=..." . Press v. >> > move cursor to the end of what you want. >> > Press "py >> > >> > Put cursor elsewhere, press >> > "pp >> > >> > Second method: >> > >> > Again, put the cursor on the "i" in "id=...". Press mp . >> > Move cursor to the end of what you want, plus one more. >> > Press: "py`p >> > >> > Again, put cursor elsewhere, press >> > "pp >> > >> >> Yet another one (while the cursor is on the "i" in "id=..."): >> >> "pyt> >> >> It turned out that "t,T" and "f,F" are quite useful motions and I have to >> admit that I underestimated the usefulness of them when I first started >> to learn vim in 2006, but now I use them all the time. >> >> Regards, >> Ag. >> >> >> > > > > -- Christopher Suter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
