>
> Thanks for that, Gary.
>
> I'm officially an idiot.
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> Ottavio Caruso
>
At least you're an honest one. :-)*
Welcome to the Order of the Golden Face-Palm, which I think we all earn at
one time or another. Confession and explanation improves collective
wisdom.
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On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:54:09 -0500
Steve Litt wrote:
> I frequently do something like this when trying to yank the end of the
> line. I press D and then p, and now I have the line ending in my
> buffer.
Unrelated to OP's question, but you, Steve, can simplify this workflow
with:
:noremap Y
'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use said on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:57:13 +
>[Originally sent through Gmane.io; apologies for possible duplicates]
>
>
>I've been using Vim for almost 4 years now and I haven't got it right
>yet.
>
>I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
On 2023-01-12, Tim Chase wrote:
> If that doesn't resolve matters, I'd be curious what mappings show
> up in play when you experience the issue since this Shouldn't
> Happen(tm) with stock vim.
To see if y is mapped and where in Normal or Visual Line mode,
execute
:verbose map y
Regards,
On 2023-01-12 14:57, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote:
> Then I press 'y'. If then I move the cursor down, it will still
> continue to highlight the following text
[snip]
> I wonder why it will keep on selecting text after pressing 'y'.
[snip]
> source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
If you take out
hi,
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 14:59, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use
wrote:
> I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
> somewhere to somewhere else.
>
> I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v (shift + v); this ...
> ...
we all work differently :-). I do not use
[Originally sent through Gmane.io; apologies for possible duplicates]
I've been using Vim for almost 4 years now and I haven't got it right yet.
I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
somewhere to somewhere else.
I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v
