One of the minor annoyances of vim for me was that yank operations would move
the cursor to the beginning of the affected text, for instance, yap would move
the cursor to the beginning of the paragraph.
There are plugins such as yanky.nvim that solve this problem, but they have many more features I didn't really need. So I came up with a short snippet that solves the problem for me.
It works by essentially hooking into any yank operation to save the cursor
position, and then uses the TextYankPost autocommand to restore the cursor
after the yank operation.
1local cursorPreYank
2vim.keymap.set({ "n", "x" }, "y", function()
3 cursorPreYank = vim.api.nvim_win_get_cursor(0)
4 return "y"
5end, { expr = true })
6vim.keymap.set("n", "Y", function()
7 cursorPreYank = vim.api.nvim_win_get_cursor(0)
8 return "y$"
9end, { expr = true })
10
11vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd("TextYankPost", {
12 callback = function()
13 if vim.v.event.operator == "y" and cursorPreYank then
14 vim.api.nvim_win_set_cursor(0, cursorPreYank)
15 end
16 end,
17})