From: "Yakov Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: gP-confusion
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:54:52 +0000
> On 8/16/06, Meino Christian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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$$gP
> >
> > then. Or in other words: In what case I would prefer gP instead of
> > gp ?
>
> gp puts after the cursor, gP puts before the cursor.
>
> When you want to paste at the front of the line, you want
> gP, like 0gP. When you want to paste at the end of the
> line, you'll want to use $gp.
?Hu?
...of the line ???
May be it should be: In front og the pasted text or afer the
pasted text?
Oh damn, how complicate it becomes to simply insert text... ;)
> So your command for yanking till end of line and appending
> at end of line will be:
> y$$gp
> *not* y$$gP. y$$gP would insert at the wrong place, 1 character before
> end of line.
>
> Yakov
>
