* Dryden <[email protected]> [2015-03-02 15:39]: > I was surprised to find that a visual yank (select a piece of a line > of text, press y to yank) will copy not only the text that is > visually selected, but also the one character under the cursor.
well.. why should a selected character NOT be included by a copy? > So for instance you have this text selected up to the period. > But the text also includes the space when you visually select > it using "v" and then copy it into the default register. sorry.. it's an unclear example. > And pasting it then reveals the additional space. I had pasted using "0P. maybe you didnt see that the cursor was on the space so it had been included in the copy (as expected)? > Is this expected or wanted or default behaviour? > Should I be dealing with this, ie. always select > one character less than what I want? > Or is it a bug of some kind? > Please advise. well.. which version are you using on which system? and can you give a reproducible example? Sven -- :ver VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jan 25 2015 02:12:47) Inklusive der Korrekturen: 1-591 $ uname -a Linux kudu.in-berlin.de 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
