Re: [vile] yank then quoted motion

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 07:51:53PM -0500, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> I frequently use quoted motion to copy blocks of text/code. I
> typically navigate the text using the paragraph motion commands {  }
> during selection.
> 
> Using q or 2q to select a region and then yanking it to a register "yy^S
> works. 
> 
> My preference is to specify this first for some reason... I guess it
> saves me the ctrl-S? I dunno...
> 
> If I specify that I want to yank the region first, with or without a
> destination register specified, the } command stops at the end of the
> first paragraph, repeated pressing of } does not move the cursor.
> 
> Since I don't think I'm doing a great job explaining it... here is an
> example. The excerpt from help the manual below is what vile considers 3
> paragraphs. I'm able to navigate to the bottom by pressing } three
> times. If I first use q or 2q it still works, all three paragraphs are
> highlighted. However, if I do yq}}} or y2q}}} I'm only able to select
> the first paragraph. But yq3} DOES work.
> 
> 
>        The buffer number may also precede the '_' command. This is
>        necessary when visiting buffers numbered higher than '9'. For
>        example, one would type "13_" to visit buffer 13 in the list.
> 
>        Use tab (or back-tab if supported) to scroll the list of 9 buffers 
>        right/left. Pressing '_' will select the first listed buffer; the 
>        1-9 digits also work as expected when the list is scrolled. 
>        
>        [ See the note under "Differences", below, for comments on vi's 
>        use of '_'.] 
> 
> This interesting thing is that this only happens in the down direction.
> If I start at the bottom I can select/yank as many paragraphs as I want
> going up using the { motion command.

sounds like a bug report :-)

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