Skip to content

docs(tutor): explain multi-selection yank and paste #16167

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
AndroLay wants to merge 1 commit into
base: master
Choose a base branch
from
+27 −0
Open

docs(tutor): explain multi-selection yank and paste #16167

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
27 changes: 27 additions & 0 deletions runtime/tutor
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -640,6 +640,30 @@
Option as Alt (e.g. macos-option-as-alt = left).
This is also true for future Alt- commands.

=================================================================
= 5.6 YANKING MULTIPLE SELECTIONS =
=================================================================

Type y to yank each selection as a separate value.
Type p to paste those values after the destination selections,
pairing them in selection order.

1. Move to the first line marked '-->' below and type x.
2. Type s, enter '[a-z]+', and press Enter to select each word.
3. Type y to yank "red", "green", and "blue" separately.
4. Type , to keep only the primary selection, then j to move to
the second line marked '-->' below.
5. Type x, then s, enter '[123]', and press Enter.
6. Type p to paste one yanked word after each number.

--> red green blue
--> 1 2 3
1red 2green 3blue

Note: To paste multiple yanked values separately, first create
multiple destination selections. If there are more
destinations than values, the last value is repeated.

=================================================================
= CHAPTER 5 RECAP =
=================================================================
Expand All @@ -654,6 +678,9 @@

* Press Alt-s to split the selection into lines.

* Type y to yank each selection separately and p to paste the
values across destination selections in order.




Expand Down