Question

I have a line of text that looks like this

foo bar http://www.example.com -> baz

I want yank the url part using ex. Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?

To clarify. I want to do something like this :y/http:.*\.com/ from the command line. But that doesn’t work.

Answer 1

While on the beginning of a line,

wwviWy

will yank the URL part while not changing the cursor position.

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If you want to do it as a command

:execute "normal! wwviWy0"

does the same thing.