Yanking doesn't yank

[Ottavio Caruso]

[Originally sent through Gmane.io; apologies for possible duplicates]


I've been using Vim for almost 4 years now and I haven't got it right yet.

I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
somewhere to somewhere else.

I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v (shift + v); this
will highlight the line; then press down arrow until I have selected the
whole block. So far so good.

Then I press 'y'. If then I move the cursor down, it will still continue
to highlight the following text, which is not what I want.

As a workaround, after selecting text, I press 'd', then 'p' to but it
back where it was and then move down and press 'p' again.

I wonder why it will keep on selecting text after pressing 'y'.

I'm missing something obvious here.

My .vimrc.

$ cat .vim/vimrc
source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim

"set shellcmdflag=-ic
set dir=~/.vim/tmp
set expandtab
set autoindent
set mouse=r

digraph bl 8226 " Insert Bullet with <CTRL>+k bl


iabbrev cwd <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m %H:%M")
iabbrev mydate <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y")
iabbrev mydate2 <C-R>=strftime("%Y%m%d")

map <f5> :1m$<cr>


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[jr]

hi,

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 at 14:59, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use
<vim...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
> somewhere to somewhere else.
>

> I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v (shift + v); this ...
> ...

we all work differently :-). I do not use visual mode in that
situation, just note the line number of the first, then move to the
last line, and, eg, ':123,.y'.

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[Tim Chase]

On 2023-01-12 14:57, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote:
> Then I press 'y'. If then I move the cursor down, it will still
> continue to highlight the following text

[snip]

> I wonder why it will keep on selecting text after pressing 'y'.

[snip]
> source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim

If you take out this defaults.vim line, does the issue persist? or
if you start vim with no vimrc?

$ vim -u NONE myfile.txt

It sounds either like the defaults.vim is interfering (and I'd
consider it to be doing so in a bad way).

I know that FreeBSD made some unforunate local changes a while back
and just finally (within the last couple months) got it resolved
so their systemwide vimrc didn't force me to use the defaults.vim
which did weird (breaking expectations from previous versions)
things. So I don't know if your system's defaults.vim (or a system
vimrc) might be causing issues.

If that doesn't resolve matters, I'd be curious what mappings show
up in play when you experience the issue since this Shouldn't
Happen(tm) with stock vim.

-tim

[Gary Johnson]

On 2023-01-12, Tim Chase wrote:

> If that doesn't resolve matters, I'd be curious what mappings show
> up in play when you experience the issue since this Shouldn't
> Happen(tm) with stock vim.

To see if y is mapped and where in Normal or Visual Line mode,
execute

:verbose map y

Regards,
Gary

[Steve Litt]

'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use said on Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:57:13 +0000

>[Originally sent through Gmane.io; apologies for possible duplicates]
>
>
>I've been using Vim for almost 4 years now and I haven't got it right
>yet.
>
>I have a block of text (say, 10 lines) that I want to copy from
>somewhere to somewhere else.
>
>I put the cursor on the first line, press capital v (shift + v); this
>will highlight the line; then press down arrow until I have selected
>the whole block. So far so good.
>
>Then I press 'y'. If then I move the cursor down, it will still
>continue to highlight the following text, which is not what I want.

I can't reproduce your symptom with my gvim version 9.0.948. My
highlighting vanishes when I press the y key. Just for fun, try using
the j key instead of the arrow key and see if the problem persists. The
j key means move down one line, and works with highlighting. The j key
is also faster for a touch typist than hunting and pecking the down
arrow. I'll say more later in this email.

>
>As a workaround, after selecting text, I press 'd', then 'p' to but it
>back where it was and then move down and press 'p' again.

I frequently do something like this when trying to yank the end of the
line. I press D and then p, and now I have the line ending in my
buffer.

>
>I wonder why it will keep on selecting text after pressing 'y'.

I don't know. Why don't you move your .vim/vimrc somewhere else and see
if it changes your symptom. If it does, you can work on your .vimrc
until you find the offending line. If the symptom is unchanged, you've
ruled out .vimrc. Also, as an additional data point, my .vimrc is in
my user directory (/home/slitt), not in /home/slitt/.vim . So be sure
to check your home directory for a .vimrc, because I have a feeling
you're approaching the wrong .vimrc.

>
>I'm missing something obvious here.
>
>My .vimrc.
>
>$ cat .vim/vimrc
>source $VIMRUNTIME/defaults.vim
>
>"set shellcmdflag=-ic
>set dir=~/.vim/tmp
>set expandtab
>set autoindent
>set mouse=r
>
>digraph bl 8226 " Insert Bullet with <CTRL>+k bl
>
>
>iabbrev cwd <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m %H:%M")
>iabbrev mydate <C-R>=strftime("%a %d/%m/%Y")
>iabbrev mydate2 <C-R>=strftime("%Y%m%d")
>
>map <f5> :1m$<cr>
>
>
>--
>Ottavio Caruso
>
>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>A: Top-posting.
>Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>

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[Enan Ajmain]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:54:09 -0500
Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> I frequently do something like this when trying to yank the end of the
> line. I press D and then p, and now I have the line ending in my
> buffer.

Unrelated to OP's question, but you, Steve, can simplify this workflow
with:
:noremap Y y$

Otherwise, with 'Dp', you're tarnishing the undotree unnecessarily.


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[Ottavio Caruso]

Am 12/01/2023 um 15:41 schrieb Tim Chase:
> If you take out this defaults.vim line, does the issue persist? or
> if you start vim with no vimrc?
>
> $ vim -u NONE myfile.txt
>
> It sounds either like the defaults.vim is interfering (and I'd
> consider it to be doing so in a bad way).

I've loaded the file with

$ vim -u NONE file

and the issue persists.

It still selects even after pressing 'y'.

[Ottavio Caruso]

Thanks for that, Gary.

I'm officially an idiot.

I switched my keyboard layout to QWERTZ and, obviously, the 'y' was
remapped to 'z'.

Sorry for the noise. Have mercy. Pray for me.

[aro...@vex.net]

>
> Thanks for that, Gary.
>
> I'm officially an idiot.

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> Ottavio Caruso
>

At least you're an honest one. :-)*
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