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Torsten Engelbrecht
Torsten Engelbrecht

Reputation: 13486

vim: yank lines above the current line together with the current line

I find myself doing Nyy very often to yank the current line and N-1 lines below. So 3yy would yank the current line and 2 more lines (so all together 3).

I know how to yank N lines above the current line (yNk), but this does not include the current line. What I want is to yank the current line and N-1 lines above. How do I do this (ideally also with the yy command)?

Edit: Apparently yNk includes the current line as well. I must have missed it. Thx for the comments.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2364

Answers (1)

Andrew Marshall
Andrew Marshall

Reputation: 96904

The following will yank the current line plus two above:

2yk

Obviously changing the 2 will alter the number of lines yanked above. No number is an implicit 1, so yk is equivalent to 1yk.

Upvotes: 10

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