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countersixte on Feb 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?

For #1, the yy command will yank the entire line (including the newline). Try using y$, which will yank from the cursor to the end of the line (not including the newline).

falcolas on Feb 2, 2012 [–]

This is the simplest way, in my opinion. So simple, that I remapped 'Y' to do exactly that (so it matches the functionality of 'D' and 'C').

    map Y y$

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