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Riza Khan
Riza Khan

Reputation: 3158

VIM Yanking Outter/Inner Tag without moving cursor

I have the following HTML:

1 <div>
2   <p>This is a paragraph</p>
3   <p>This is the second paragraph</p>
4 </div>

If I do not have my cursor anywhere near the above item and try to yank

  1. The entire div by: :1yat
  2. The inner content of that div :1yit
  3. The inner content of the first paragraph :2yit

None of the above commands work. Any idea how I can yank inner/outter div elements without moving the cursor (#extremelaziness)?

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 48

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 15091

Vim is commonly called "modal" editor, because it has modes. What it truly means is that all the commands and keyhits are different between different modes. That's the main point which must be learnt by anyone who uses Vim.

In your case yat and such belong to the Normal mode, while : switches into Command-line mode. While in the Command-line mode you can only execute its commands.

Of course, there is :normal which serves as a sort of "bridge" between Normal and Command-line, however it's primarily used in scripting as typing :1norm yat looks like anything but #extremelaziness.

So you have either to write some custom command yourself or to keep typing 2ggyat<C-O> and such.

Upvotes: 1

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