Reputation: 2527

Vim - yank from current cursor position till beginning of line

in VIM, I understand that we can do a yank till the end of line using y$ but if e.g. my text is abcdefg and my cursor is at 'g' and I enter y^ the line will be copy without the g. My idea is to copy the whole line without the line break, any similar action will do.

Upvotes: 18

Answers (5)

user1902824

Reputation:

Turns out yanking till end of line is a thing you'll find yourself doing quite often. As such, the following mapping is quite popular.

noremap Y y$

It's so popular, it's even listed under :h Y!

If you use this mapping, the answer to your question would be 0Y

Upvotes: 3

romainl

Reputation: 196856

0yg_

is another option.

But visual mode is better:

v0y
v^y

Upvotes: 1

alfredodeza

Reputation: 5198

If all the characters are indeed together and conform to a "vim sentence", you could use visual selection for the sentence object. A sentence in this case would match abcdefg even if that is not starting at the beginning of a line and it will not include the line ending:

visy

If you want to include trailing whitespace you would use a instead of i (mnemonic for "inside"):

vasy

The only problem with this approach (which may be what you do not want) is that it will not include leading whitespace. So if you have something like: