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ViMode: Yanking until given character #3735

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Yanking until given character for -ViMode Command

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<y,t> ViYankToBeforeChar Yanks until given character forward.
<y,T> ViYankToBeforeCharBackward Yanks until given character backward.
<y,f> ViYankToChar Yanks inclusively until given character forward.
<y,F> ViYankToCharBackward Yanks inclusively until given character backward.

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Needs-Triage 🔍It's a new issue that core contributor team needs to triage.
on Jul 7, 2023
matteocoder

matteocoder commented on Nov 3, 2023

@matteocoder

If one wanted to implement this functionality using only methods from PSReadline, how would you programmatically access the register which is used in command mode to store the yanked text? I mean in the same way one can access the kill ring using only the psconsolereadline class.

Konstantin-Glukhov

Konstantin-Glukhov commented on Nov 7, 2023

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I am not sure. How are y0 and y$ implemented? Shouldn't be the same? First find a position of the searched character and then yank from current position to the found position?

matteocoder

matteocoder commented on Nov 7, 2023

@matteocoder

@Konstantin-Glukhov Thanks for the reply. My problem in particular is that I cannot find, looking at the documentation, a psreadline method like

[Microsoft.PowerShell.PSConsoleReadLine]::ViPlaceThisStringInTheViClipboard(<string>)

Implementing the motions seems already possible with the available methods, but it seems it is not possible to directly access the place where text is yanked. I'm happy to be proven wrong, though.

Konstantin-Glukhov

Konstantin-Glukhov commented on Nov 7, 2023

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Did you find how <y,$> is implemented?

matteocoder

matteocoder commented on Nov 7, 2023

@matteocoder

Not yet. I know nothing about C#, so it's kind of hard for me.

EDIT: the text is pasted to a private _viRegister, so it seems like it's not accessible from outside.

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          ViMode: Yanking until given character · Issue #3735 · PowerShell/PSReadLine