Question

I’m new to Vim. Say I’m editing a doc and have added some words to the end of a line. I’m still in edit mode with my cursor at the end of the line.

I then decide that I want to copy the 4 words before my cursor and paste them to the end of the line below.
If I use escy4b I miss out the last char.

How would an experienced vim user achieve this?

Answer 1

I would just use this:

ESCv4by

or:

ESC4by$

for this specific case where your curosr is at the end of the line.