svban/YankAssassin.vim

Don't let the cursor move while Yanking in Vim/Neovim

What is YankAssassin.vim?

It is really annoying when you want to yank text and paste it close to your cursor and your cursor moves to the start of the yanked text. Especially when you are using text-objects. This plugin helps you fix it. Basically, while Yanking your cursor will not move to the start of the Yanked Text.

Demo

Features

1. Both Mapping-less(better) & Mapping-plus Solution.
2. While Yanking, text-objects, count, registers also work.
3. Provides extra mappings, which have default behaviour.
4. Works in both Normal & Visual Mode.

Installation

• Vim plug - Plug 'svban/YankAssassin.vim'
• or install it, just like you would any vim-plugin.

Options

• g:yankassassin_use_mappings = 0 - Mapping-less solution(default), 1 - Mapping-plus solution

Usage

• You need to set these bindings, these are examples.
• Default Key Bindings - which moves the cursor to start of yanked text

  nmap <leader>y <Plug>YADefault
  xmap <leader>y <Plug>YADefault
  

• Mapping-plus Solution

  nmap y <Plug>YAMotion
  xmap y <Plug>YAVisual
  nmap yy <Plug>YALine
  

Others

• If you are using Neovim, for Yank highlighting you can use

    augroup highlight_yank
        autocmd!
        au TextYankPost * silent! lua vim.highlight.on_yank{ higroup="IncSearch", timeout=500 }
    augroup END

• If you are using Vim, for Yank highlighting you can use machakann/vim-highlightedyank