On 06/12/12 14:58, richard emberson wrote:
> I'd like to yank some visually selected text with execute:
> :execute 'normal! v05l"+y'
>
> But this indeed visually selected the 5 characters but
> does not yank them. Its as if the " is a comment
> character and not the start of a yank-to operation.
While I don't seem to have an issue with the command you suggest,
you can also do it with
:let @+ = getline('.')[:4]
to pull character 0-4 (that is 1-5) from the current line.
-tim
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