Question

I’ve been using Vim for quite some time. There’s one thing I’m still not used to and will never get used to… it copying/pasting after the cursor. It drives me nuts and I have to stop and think about that before copying or pasting anything.

For example if I have “hello worl” highlighted in “hello world” it’ll copy “hello world” even tho the “d” is not highlighted. Same as pasting.

Is there a way to change this behavior?

Answer 1

If you, say, press v when h is highlighted, then move to l and press y it will yank exactly what you asked for — hello worl. Are you sure you don’t advance cursor to d? And are you sure you use y? I suspect that you either do Y or you don’t see the cursor as part of your highlight.