Vim End-Of-Line Inconsistency?

[aditya siram]

Just noticed something that seems inconsistent with motions and using the '$' to go to the end of a line. Given the line:

a b c d e

if point is on 'a' and I do 'd$' to delete to the end of the line, it yanks 'a b c d e', however if I visually select and then delete 'v$d' it yanks 'a b c d e\n' which includes the newline at the end. I have similar issues with 'y$' and 'v$y'.

Thanks!
-deech

[Cryptic Swarm]

For visual mode you can do 'vg_d' to delete not including \n.

For normal mode you can use 'D' instead of 'd$'  to delete to end of line not including \n.

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[aditya siram]

Neat tip about 'D'!
I never figured that out because '_' goes to the first non-blank. Never occured to me that 'g_' goes to the last one.

The behaviour of 'd$' and 'v$d' still seems inconsistent though. :)

Thanks!
-deech

[Cryptic Swarm]

Yeah, that is pretty inconsistent. I've tried figuring out why it did that before. I had thought it was something to do with the virtualedit settings I use, but wasn't able to get it to work the same.

Another inconsistency is that 'D' deletes to end of line but 'Y' does not yank to end of line, but that can be remedied with 'noremap Y yg_'.

[Michele Berg]

Thanks for the tip about 'D' - I use d$ every day.  Nice to have another tool in my toolbelt.

Michele