Problem : how can I copy/paste this in vim?

Question

I'm working with the vim editor and I found y,yw respectively to copy a line and a word but how can I do the following task in vim?

www.pack.google.com

From this line how can I copy and paste ack.goo using vim editor?

Answer 1

Move cursor under 'a', press 'v', use arrow key to select until 'o', press 'y'. Then move cursor to where you want to paste the text, press 'p'. Done (:

Answer 2

y is followed by a movement, so, like you said, yw will copy a word because w is the movement that takes you forward one word.

You can also type a number before an action or before a movement (or both, I suppose, but that multiplies the numbers and that just seems silly) to repeat the action/movement that many times, so to yank 5 words you can type 5yw or y5w.

In your example, l moves the cursor left, so if the cursor is on the "a" you want, you can do y7l or 7yl.