On 03/10/2011 10:57 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote:
On Thu, March 10, 2011 10:35 am, Jeroen Budts wrote:
I'm looking for the quickest method to yank an entire (php) function
when the cursor is somewhere in the first line of the function
definition like this (| = cursor):
fun|ction foobar() {
if (true) {
return "not false :)";
}
}
One possible solution would be:
jvaBVy
But I'm wondering if there it is possible in a shorter way and maybe
without using visual mode.
f{y%
or even shorter:
$y%
(if the opening brace is always the last character on the line)
Is this for something like vimgolf?
regards,
Christian
Thanks for your suggestion Christian! However when I try this, it does
not entirely do what I was looking for (my bad for not explaning it good
enough).
I want to yank the entire method, so that includes the entire first line
(function foobar() {). Your suggestion also works if i change it to
first invoke visual mode and at the end press V to change it to visual
line-mode, but i was wondering if it is somehow possible to do this in
just a few keystrokes and possibly without using visual mode.
While i was writing this mail, it felt indeed like a good start for a
vimgolf challenge, but that was not my intention. I was working on a PHP
project (Drupal actually) and my cursor happened to be at the beginning
of a function which I had to yank in it's entirety. So I simply wondered
what the most efficient way to do this would be. Mainly just to learn
more about Vim. I started using Vim 7 months ago, and seem to have
grasped most basic commands (and text-objects etc), but i'm pretty sure
that i can improve my vim usage by more trying to combine these basic
commands and use them more efficiently. I often find myself activating
visual mode and pressing jjjjjjj and the y, while in a lot of cases i
could do it in more efficient ways i think (and know, after i made the
selection). The difficulty of learning vim is often in finding (and
learning to use and repeat) these more efficient ways.
Thanks!
Jeroen
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