Deleting all but selected on a line

[Hansen, Mike]

I'm cleaning up a Perl Template Toolkit template, and I was wondering
how would you select some text on a line and delete anything else on
that line that isn't selected.

<input type="text" class="yadda_yadda" value="[% something_important &]" />

If I visually selected [% something_important %], is there some VIM
magic that I could delete everything else on the line?

Mike

[Hansen, Mike]

I'll answer my own question. I solved it by recording a macro, but I'm interested in other solutions.

Mike

[fritzophrenic]

I'd personally just yank it, delete the whole line, and put it the
yanked text back:

y0Dp

or

ycc<esc>p

If you do this often, maybe make a vmap to do it for you with one
keystroke.

[Marc Weber]

> I'll answer my own question. I solved it by recording a macro, but I'm interested in other solutions.

I usually do
y0PlD

Marc

[Marc Weber]

> y0Dp
Don't forget that D will override your yanked text..

[Hansen, Mike]

Thanks. That does the trick.

Mike

[fritzophrenic]

On Dec 3, 12:12 pm, Marc Weber <marco-owe...@gmx.de> wrote:
> > y0Dp
>
> Don't forget that D will override your yanked text..

Whoops, that's right.

Make that y0D"0p

And the same for the cc<esc> option.

I like your method better...much shorter.

[Chris Suter]

if you have the text selected in visual mode already, you could simply do dVP. this will delete the selected text, putting it in the " register, then select the whole line, and replace it with the contents of the " register.

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Christopher Suter