How can I find help for ye/ye ?
:help ye
or
:help yE
gives me help for the year-2000 compliance which is not
directly what I wanted ...
That's kinda funny that it drops you in y2k information.
The trick to searching for them (and for that matter, grokking
vi/vim) is to understand that what you're asking about ("ye" or
"yE") is a command ("y"ank) followed by a motion ("e" or "E").
Thus, you learn about yanking at
:help y
and you learn about the e/E motions at
:help e
:help E
Much of vi/vim's editing power comes from learning N commands
(y/d/c) and M of motions ("/", h/j/k/l, t/T/f/F, various text
objects, etc) and suddenly you have a N*M ways to edit, rather
than N+M as one might have in other editors. You learn an
additional command, and usually all the motions that make sense
with it already work as you'd expect. You learn another motion
(perhaps you're not familiar with the list given above? check
'em out in the help and you can increase your editing power) and
you can suddenly move much faster and do things in a single
pass/command+motion.
Add to that the power of the "count", so you can do things like
y3e
which will yank from the current cursor position to the 3rd word
"e"nd.
:help operator
:help motion.txt
-tim
