Need to copy param values from json (copy text inside quotes " ")

[straddler]

Hi,

I have such a workflow that I have to copy some text (parameters) from json that is display on a webpage.

Currently, I enter visual mode, then use / to search for start of the param (in bellow example that would be /Value1).
And then select everything up until end of line with $ and then return a couple of chars back hit enter and I have it in the clipboard.
(I feel I should be able to do this better, to somehow jump to end of " but I was not able to figure that out - if anyone knows please help)

Example:

{
"Param1" : "/Value1INeedToCopy/with/some/path/blabla",
"Param2" : "/Value2INeedToCopy/with/some/other/path"
..etc
}

Now I am interested if somehow I can improve this? For example could I with usage of map or runKey do something better?

Ideally, how would I love this to work would be in the same manner as find (f) works where I would get chars I need to type to get value in-between " " to clipboard. I believe to achieve my ideal scenario would required new feature to be implemented all together? If possible I would be interested to help with implementation if that's something that is seen as useful.

P.S. Thanks for the great tool! I just started using it yDay and I already love it so much.

[gdh1995]

is the json a plain text node, or rendered in color using many div elements?

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---Original--- From: ***@***.***> Date: Thu, Apr 7, 2022 18:13 PM To: ***@***.***>; Cc: ***@***.***>; Subject: [gdh1995/vimium-c] Need to copy param values from json (copy text inside quotes " ") (Discussion #600) Hi, I have such a workflow that I have to copy some text (parameters) from json that is display on a webpage. Currently, I enter visual mode, then use / to search for start of the param (in bellow example that would be /Value1). And then select everything up until end of line with $ and then return a couple of chars back hit enter and I have it in the clipboard. (I feel I should be able to do this better, to somehow jump to end of " but I was not able to figure that out - if anyone knows please help) Example: { "Param1" : "/Value1INeedToCopy/with/some/path/blabla", "Param2" : "/Value2INeedToCopy/with/some/other/path" ..etc } Now I am interested if somehow I can improve this? For example could I with usage of map or runKey do something better? Ideally, how would I love this to work would be in the same manner as find (f) works where I would get chars I need to type to get value in-between " " to clipboard. I believe to achieve my ideal scenario would required new feature to be implemented all together? If possible I would be interested to help with implementation if that's something that is seen as useful. P.S. Thanks for the great tool! I just started using it yDay and I already love it so much. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[straddler]

It is a plain text node, everything is inside one div

[gdh1995]

The most generic way is to use $ to go to an end and then 2h to go left by 2 characters.

If you just want to remove the ", and " tails, in a future version (v1.98.0) there will be a way:

1. add to Custom key mappings on Vimium C Options:

map v enterVisualMode sedKeys="1"

2. add to Auto substitution of various text:

1@",?$@@

[straddler]

Hey @gdh1995 . I saw that 1.98.0 was out and this works. Huge thanks!

I improved it a bit:

1. I have the mapping:
   map v enterVisualMode sedKeys="1"

2. And also the regex string replace:
   1=.*"(.*?)".*=$1=

This will replace everything before and including " and everything after and including " with the content inside " ":
Ex. asdf:"/some/path/bla",{asdf => /some/path/bla after doing the selection in visual mode & hiting enter.

And this is great. Now I want to improve on this even more but I am stuck I spent a couple of hours looking at wiki: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Map-a-key-to-different-commands-on-different-websites and trying things out but
unable to figure out how can I chain multiple comands.
Today what I do is:
1)Do a simple search to find the location of the string I want, lets say I do / "/ and then hit enter
2)Enter visual mode with v, hit $ and hit enter
3)Success, I have content thats inside quotations in my clipboard

I see huge potential to make 2) single key however unable to understand the wiki how to do it?
Also 1) could be potentiallu squased into single key - again I am unable to understand how to use the map key :(

Could you please help? Thanks a lot!

[gdh1995]

The 2nd step can be replaced by such mapping rules:

map <v-to_lb> editText dom run="extend,forward,lineBoundary"
run xxx to_lb+autoCopy#sedKeys="1"
# then `xxx` will extend selection and copy

Wiki of the run directive: https://github.com/gdh1995/vimium-c/wiki/Auto-run-a-tree-of-commands .

BTW, the regexp is not so optimal, and can be replaced by:

# `matched` means to return: "replaced result" or a first "capturing group"
1="(.*?)"==,matched

[straddler]

Thanks a lot - this helped. I could not figure this out by my self but I think now starting to get the hang of it but still a bit blurry on the map <v-to_lb> editText dom run="extend,forward,lineBoundary"

If I understand it corretly, this is making that "fake" mapping (thats there for some optimization) <v-to_lb> to be used later in the run part on next line.
"editText": "Send editing action to browser", So editText means sending editing action to browser.

However the dom part, and then run="extend,forward,lineBoundary" are a bit puzzling and blurry.
I am guessing it's related to what you wrote here: #114 (comment)

[gdh1995]

editText itself requires run to learn what to do, and the content of run is sent to APIs like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection/modify (extend,xxx,xxx will be sent to Selection::modify).

By default editText only works in an editable box, while dom makes editText try to work on normal page elements.

[straddler]

Now that explains it.