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How to yank the text and paste it inline in Vim?
Use y i w (“yank inner word”) instead of y y to yank just what you want: y y is line-wise yank and will grab the whole line including the carriage return, which you can see if you look at the unnamed register ( “”) in :registers which is used as the source for pastes.
How do you yank back to previous position in Vim?
Typing ” moves you back to previous position (unfortuantely only remembers the previous position, not two back). You can yank to named buffers, copy, delete lines, search&replace just portions of your code, etc. without needing to know the line numbers.
How to yank a line in Stack Overflow?
And after selecting lines just copy them by pressing y. Then paste copied lines by pressing p. In addition to :91,96y a which yanks ( y) lines 91 through 96 into register a, (pasted with “ap ), the yanked lines can be appended to the register with:
How to overwrite Y lines in Vim with AP?
Then paste copied lines by pressing p. In addition to :91,96y a which yanks ( y) lines 91 through 96 into register a, (pasted with “ap ), the yanked lines can be appended to the register with: I.e. the capitalization of the A register causes an appending operation into register a instead of an overwrite.
How to select between brackets ( or quotes ) in Vim?
To select between the single quotes I usually do a vi’ (“select inner single quotes”). To make the selections “inclusive” (select also the quotes, parenthesis or braces) you can use a instead of i. You can read more about the Text object selections on the manual, or :help text-objects within vim.
How to remove braces from VIM Stack Exchange?
The solution would be to install the patch, but there are many other ways to remove the surrounding brackets which don’t suffer from the bug. The best workaround is @Gilles answer but the easiest may be to visually select before you yank, to keep the register characterwise.
When to use a instead of I in Vim?
To make the selections “inclusive” (select also the quotes, parenthesis or braces) you can use a instead of i. You can read more about the Text object selections on the manual, or :help text-objects within vim. This method of selection is built-in and well covered in the Vim help. It covers XML tags and more.