From: Jürgen Krämer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gP-confusion
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:33:08 +0200
>
> Hi,
>
> Meino Christian Cramer schrieb:
> >
> > finally I found (nearly) what I am searching for...but...
> >
> > I wanted a command which after doing a y$ from in the midth of a
> > line, puts my yanked text after the end of the line and the cursor
> > right after the put text.
> >
> > The help of "gP" states (my im is "nocompatible"):
> >
> > ["x]gP Just like "P", but leave the cursor just after
> > the new
> > text. {not in Vi}
> >
> >
> > But it seems I understand the help wrongly. Example:
> >
> > This is a very boring example of a line.
> > x
> >
> > (x=position of the cursor)
> >
> > I do a y$gP and the line looks like:
> >
> > This is a very boring example of a line.a very boring example of a line.
> > x
> >
> > The help says:
> > ...but leave the cursor just after the *new*
> > text.
>
> it did.
>
> > What did I so wrong here ? What did I misundertstand ?
>
> You missed to go to the end of line before putting the text:
>
> y$$gp
>
> Note the second dollar sign. "y$" alone does leave the cursor at its
> current position. The second "$" then puts the cursor on the last
> character of the line. "gp" (with *lower* case ell) appends the yanked
> text. If you had chosen a different text to put than the one the cursor
> is in front of, the result of your command would have been more
> obvious.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen
Hmmm....
...and what is the difference between
y$$gp
and
y$$gP
then. Or in other words: In what case I would prefer gP instead of
gp ?
Regards,
Meino
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