Jorge Herrera jorgehatccrma

Answer by Jim Dennis on Stack Overflow question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-most-productive-shortcut-with-vim/1220118#1220118

Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.

You mention cutting with yy and complain that you almost never want to cut whole lines. In fact programmers, editing source code, very often want to work on whole lines, ranges of lines and blocks of code. However, yy is only one of many way to yank text into the anonymous copy buffer (or "register" as it's called in vi).

The "Zen" of vi is that you're speaking a language. The initial y is a verb. The statement yy is a simple statement which is, essentially, an abbreviation for 0 y$:

0 go to the beginning of this line. y yank from here (up to where?)

	<html>

	<head>
	<script src="js/hammer.js-1.0.4/hammer.min.js"></script>
	<!--script src="js/hammer.js-1.0.4/hammer.fakemultitouch.js"></script-->

	</head>

	<body >

	<polymer-element name="gr-test">

	<template>
	<p>Hi there!</p>
	</template>

	<script>
	Polymer('gr-test', {
	ready: function() {
	console.log("ready");

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
	<head>

	<!-- Including this makes the code below crash -->
	<!--script src="libs/polymer.min.js"></script-->

	<script type="text/javascript" src="libs/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>

	</head>

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# encoding: utf-8

	from gevent import monkey; monkey.patch_all()
	from socketio.namespace import BaseNamespace
	from socketio import socketio_manage

	from bottle import route, request, static_file, run

	import logging

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	import logging
	from collections import defaultdict

	import overpy
	from shapely.geometry.polygon import Polygon
	from shapely.geometry.multipolygon import MultiPolygon


	def ways2poly(ways):

	"""
	This simple Jython script shows how to use Apache Lucene
	directly in a Jython script
	"""

	# your usual Python imports
	import sys
	from contextlib import contextmanager

	# add jars to classpath

	cumwidth=7
	for i in {0..255}; do
	printf "\x1b[38;5;${i}m [%03i] \x1b[0m" $i ;
	if [ $i -eq $cumwidth ]; then
	echo ;
	if [ $cumwidth -ge 15 ]; then
	((cumwidth+=6))
	else
	((cumwidth+=8))
	fi ;