Get 2 lines yanked or 1 line yanked confirmation

Question

This is a small thing, but it still annoys me. When I select at least 3 lines with Visual line mode, and then yank them, I get a confirmation: n lines yanked appears at the bottom of my screen. However, if I yank just 1 or 2 lines, no such thing happens.

The same thing happens with v and Ctrl-v, or something lie y} where these confirmations only appear if the selection is spread over at least 3 lines.

Is there a way to turn on these confirmations, now matter how much I yank?

Answer 1

You are looking for the 'report' option:

'report'        number  (default 2)
            global
    Threshold for reporting number of lines changed.  When the number of
    changed lines is more than 'report' a message will be given for most
    ":" commands.  If you want it always, set 'report' to 0.
    For the ":substitute" command the number of substitutions is used
    instead of the number of lines.

This should solve your issue:

:set report=0

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Edit

I believe there is no built-in option to issue messages for changes smaller than a line -- you could check the documentation or use the :options command (specially the "messages and info" section). Maybe issuing a message for every change would be distracting for most people.

You will probably need to overwrite the y operator to include your custom messages, similar to the example at :help :map-operator.