"this says, into the p register, (y)ank (a) double-quoted text object."
should have said "this says, into the p register, (y)ank (i)nside double-quoted text object." On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Chris Suter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Christopher Suter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
