This behavior annoys me as well. Fortunately I don't need to yank backward too often.
To answer your question, vim motions are of two types: - ':h inclusive' - ':h exclusive' I don't understand that helpdoc well, but I understand that this is the reason 'yb' excludes the character the cursor was on. For fun, try 'yge', which is an inclusive motion. It's not a substitute of 'yb' (you'll see why when you try). It's just to demonstrate the reason why 'yb' behaves unintuitively. It's not gonna be changed upstream, but I bet patching your own copy of vim won't be too hard. If I were using 'yb' as often as you seem to be, I would've tried patching it. -- Enan 3nan.ajm...@gmail.com https://www.github.com/3N4N -- -- 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 vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20230307132118.6b628228%40cirdan.
