get better copy backwards

[Igor Lerinc]

imagine i have line of text:

echo "Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"] . "." . "<br/><br/>";

my cursor is █

echo █"Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"] . "." . "<br/><br/>";

and then, i move cursor to ] with f

it will go before last character in word

echo "Zdravo, " . $_GET["ime"] . " " . $_GET["prezime"█] . "." . "<br/><br/>";

and if i want to yank it backwards to $

i need to move my cursor to left and only then yank it backwards

i really hate that 'feature', why cursor can't just sit and go to the last character in word?

[Salman Halim]

Igor,

It's possible I didn't fully understand the problem you're facing. Are you saying that you aren't sure about how to yank backwards or are you saying that the backward yank doesn't include the ] where your cursor currently is?

If the first, then just as 'f' and 't' move forward to a given character, 'F' and 'T' move backward. In your case, you could just do 'y2F$' (all without the quotes, of course).

Additionally, you could use the EasyMotion plugin (https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3526) if you have a lot of $ signs and don't want to try to count them before issuing the command.

If the second, then, yes, you have first move over a single character before doing the yank. Perhaps you could create a mapping that moves you over and does the yank?

Hope this helps,

Salman

[Igor Lerinc]

i'm saying that: backward yank doesn't include the ] where your cursor currently is

so i always lose that one last character. 

i already have easymotion plugin, and that's why i just use 'f', even tought i'm familiar with F for backwards, but just want to do less keystrokes, that's whole point right?

i understand, that pointer needs to be in that position, in order to be able to insert before and after cursor , with i and a . 

but why can't it copy that one front char in front of it if it's last char in a word? 

what happens when i try to copy is i lose that last char from word. 

and that alone, is making Vim useless for speedy work (tought, i wouldn't complain about other features, just that, this slows me down very much)

[Owajigbanam Ogbuluijah]

I often consider the cursor as the left edge of the block. This way, yanking backwards makes sense. Ensure the left edge of your cursor is outside (i.e. "right-bounding") the text you want to yank. Then the solution in Salman Halim's answer makes sense. 

This works for all cases except when you are at EOL. For the EOL case, there's a config which allows the cursor to go beyond EOL — can't remember it off the top of my head now, but it's there. Once you have that setup, the solution in my first paragraph should work.

If both of these don't feel right to you, you could always visually select with your motions, then yank.

Best,

Igbanam

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[Salman Halim]

Set 'vritualedit' to onemore:

    :set virtualedit=onemore

That will let it go just beyond the end of the line, but no further. Might do exactly what Igabanam is suggesting. That combined with something like:

    :nnoremap Y ly

Solves it for me, though you have to not be using Y (I use 'yy', so it's free for me).

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[Enan Ajmain]

This behavior annoys me as well. Fortunately I don't need to yank
backward too often.

To answer your question, vim motions are of two types:
- ':h inclusive'
- ':h exclusive'

I don't understand that helpdoc well, but I understand that this is the
reason 'yb' excludes the character the cursor was on. For fun, try
'yge', which is an inclusive motion. It's not a substitute of 'yb'
(you'll see why when you try). It's just to demonstrate the reason why
'yb' behaves unintuitively.

It's not gonna be changed upstream, but I bet patching your own copy of
vim won't be too hard. If I were using 'yb' as often as you seem to be,
I would've tried patching it.

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[M]

вт, 7 мар. 2023 г., 10:21 Enan Ajmain <3nan....@gmail.com>:

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Getting exclusive-inclusive difference is easier than it looks at first: exclusive motions always exclude the rightmost character. This is both weird and normal at the same time, as driving a car: turning wheel to the right always turns car to the right, no matter if it goes forward or backward.

Kind regards,

Matvey

[Christian Brabandt]

On Di, 07 Mär 2023, Enan Ajmain wrote:

> To answer your question, vim motions are of two types:
> - ':h inclusive'
> - ':h exclusive'
>
> I don't understand that helpdoc well, but I understand that this is the
> reason 'yb' excludes the character the cursor was on. For fun, try
> 'yge', which is an inclusive motion. It's not a substitute of 'yb'
> (you'll see why when you try). It's just to demonstrate the reason why
> 'yb' behaves unintuitively.

Try using yvb which should force the motion to be inclusive, e.g.
include the right-most character. See :h o_v

> It's not gonna be changed upstream, but I bet patching your own copy of
> vim won't be too hard. If I were using 'yb' as often as you seem to be,
> I would've tried patching it.

That makes it even more confusing, if you'll have to use a non-patched
Vim.

Best,
Christian
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[Enan Ajmain]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 09:40:39 +0100
Christian Brabandt <cbl...@256bit.org> wrote:
> Try using yvb which should force the motion to be inclusive, e.g.
> include the right-most character. See :h o_v

Nice! Thanks for this. Didn't know.

> > It's not gonna be changed upstream, but I bet patching your own
> > copy of vim won't be too hard. If I were using 'yb' as often as
> > you seem to be, I would've tried patching it.
>
> That makes it even more confusing, if you'll have to use a
> non-patched Vim.

True.

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