yank

I'm sure there used to be a plugin for this kinda stuff, but now that I need it, I can't seem to find it (naturally), so I'll just ask nice and simple. What is the easiest way to select between brackets, or quotes, or generally a list of matching characters? write ( *, '(a)' ) 'Computed solution coefficients:' For example, here I'd like to select (a) , or Computed solution coefficients: . I'm not interested in multiline, just cases which occur on one line. Tim Whitcomb Use whatever navigation key you want to get inside the parentheses, then you can use either yi( or yi) to copy everything

Assuming the current buffer is a file open for edit, so :e does not display E32: No file name . I would like to yank one or all of: The file name exactly as show on the status line, e.g. ~\myfile.txt A full path to the file, e.g. c:\foo\bar\myfile.txt Just the file name, e.g. myfile.txt TL;DR :let @" = expand("%") > this will copy the file name to the unamed register , then you can use good old p to paste it. and of course you can map this to a key for quicker use. :nmap cp :let @" = expand("%")<cr> you can also use this for full path :let @" = expand("%:p") Explanation Vim uses the unnamed