How to yank the text on a line and paste it inline in Vim?

Question

Say, I have the following lines:

thing();
getStuff();

I want to take getStuff() using the yy command, go forward to

Answer 1

One way to simplify the routine of operating on the same text patterns is to define mappings that mimic text-object selection commands.

The two pairs of mappings below—one for Visual mode and another for Operator-Pending mode—provide a way to select everything on the current line except for the new line character (al), and everything from the first non-blank character of the current line through the last non-blank character, inclusively (il).

:vnoremap  al :norm!0v$h
:vnoremap  il :norm!^vg_
:onoremap  al :norm val
:onoremap  il :norm vil

Thus, instead of using yy to copy the contents of a line that is to be pasted character-wise (and not line-wise), one can then use the yal or yil commands to yank, followed by the p command to paste, as usual.