Triple Click To Select Entire Line In Windows GVIM

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Roy Fulbright

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Nov 22, 2024, 11:12:50 PM11/22/24
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When I triple click a line in GVIM in windows the entire line is selected, but a newline character is part of the selection. How can I triple click a line to select the entire line without the newline character?
Thanks,
Roy

meine

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Nov 23, 2024, 5:52:26 AM11/23/24
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2024 at 04:12:39AM +0000, Roy Fulbright wrote:
> When I triple click a line in GVIM in windows the entire line is selected, but a newline character is part of the selection. How can I triple click a line to select the entire line without the newline character?

Disclaimer: I only work with text files (the proze) and don't do coding.

Is your selection on a line, a sentence or paragraph?

A paragraph can have several sentences, a sentence several lines, a line
several words. These entities all have their own 'nouns' in the VIM
command language.

It depends what VIM-command is behind the tripple-click.

'yy' copies the entire line, also parts that flow forth on new lines
below

'ys' copies the sentence up to the period or whatever mark you set for
the type of file

'yg$' copies til the end of the line with visual characters, but not the
hidden newline. On sentences that flow over several lines this copies
only the line the cursor is on from the cursor position til the enod of
line.

Using the keyboard will give you more control.

KR,

//meine

Roy Fulbright

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Nov 25, 2024, 2:46:37 AM11/25/24
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The selection is a single line. ‘yy’ does not put the selection into the Windows clipboard, which triple clicking does. I just want to get rid of the newline. 
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Igbanam Ogbuluijah

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"+yy would 


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Roy Fulbright

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Nov 25, 2024, 12:43:48 PM11/25/24
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+yy does not put the text in the Windows clipboard. What I am looking for is an option to turn off the inclusion of newline when I triple-click a line. 
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Christian Brabandt

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On Mon, 25 Nov 2024, Roy Fulbright wrote:

> +yy does not put the text in the Windows clipboard. What I am looking
> for is an option to turn off the inclusion of newline when I
> triple-click a line.

"+yy does exactly that, copy the current line into the clipboard in
Windows GVim, but it also contains the final new line. I suppose you can
use the TextYankPost event to strip the final newline if you do not like
it.

Thanks,
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Roy Fulbright

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Hmm … I must be missing something in my setup, because I had tried +yy but the Windows clipboard was empty. 
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c.willis111

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Nov 25, 2024, 7:19:43 PM11/25/24
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Hi

I appreciate that Christian is an expert, but in my version of vim typing + does not appear when typing +yy.

 

I wd have expected to type "+yy which does show, and does yank the line into the clipboard.

 

regards - Chris

 

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Hmm … I must be missing something in my setup, because I had tried +yy but the Windows clipboard was empty. 

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Roy Fulbright

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Nov 25, 2024, 7:36:47 PM11/25/24
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Unfortunately, adding the double quote before +yy does not work for me either. In fact, any form of yy, etc, etc is not what I am looking for. I simply want to triple click a line and send it to the Windows clipboard without the trailing newline. That’s all. 
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rob

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Nov 25, 2024, 8:34:15 PM11/25/24
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I don't know if anyone responded, but the correct key strokes are

quote plus yy

You missed the beginning quote keypress

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jr

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Nov 25, 2024, 8:41:10 PM11/25/24
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hi,

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024 at 00:36, Roy Fulbright <rful...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, adding the double quote before +yy does not work for me either. In fact, any form of yy, etc, etc is not what I am looking for. I simply want to triple click a line and send it to the Windows clipboard without the trailing newline. That’s all.

fwiw, and as a workaround only, entering (cursor at begin of line)
'v'isual to '$', then cursor left removes the newline from the
highlighted.

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Roy Fulbright

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Nov 25, 2024, 10:09:41 PM11/25/24
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Let me try this one more time. While I appreciate all the hints about yy, etc., my question is how to use the triple-click to select a line without adding the new line. I need to know if triple-clicking is hard coded in Gvim to add a new line, and if it is hard coded then there is no solution. If there is an option in Gvim to allow triple clicking to not include the new line, then that is the option I need. Thank you all. 
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Marvin Renich

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Nov 26, 2024, 1:02:04 AM11/26/24
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* Roy Fulbright <rful...@hotmail.com> [241125 22:09]:
> Let me try this one more time. While I appreciate all the hints about
> yy, etc., my question is how to use the triple-click to select a line
> without adding the new line. I need to know if triple-clicking is hard
> coded in Gvim to add a new line, and if it is hard coded then there is
> no solution. If there is an option in Gvim to allow triple clicking to
> not include the new line, then that is the option I need. Thank you
> all.

I'm sorry that you are frustrated with the responses you have gotten.
First, the help on this subject can be found at :help gui-mouse and
:help mouse-using.

The short answer is that you can map <3-LeftMouse> to do whatever you
can do with Vim script.

Other than that, a single click moves the cursor to the mouse location,
double click selects the word under the mouse, and triple click selects
line-wise (which implicitly includes the ending newline). Yes, this is
different from the standard Windows behavior.

If, when double or triple clicking, you do not release the mouse, i.e.
hold the button down after the second or third press, then moving the
mouse extends the selection, word-wise for double click and line-wise
for triple click.

You might get almost what you want by moving the mouse to the left of
the line, double clicking without releasing, and then dragging to near
the end of the line. I know it's not as convenient as a triple click,
but without mapping the mouse events, I think that is the best you can
do.

However, all the mouse events can be mapped. Some additional relevant
help topics: Select-mode, gui-selections, and map.

The problem with Vim's help is that it is so extensive that it is
sometimes hard to find exactly what you are looking for!

...Marvin

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