How to select a jagged block in Vim?

Question

For example, there are some text like this:

001 aaaaa
002 bbbbbbbb
003 ccc

I want to select

aaaaa
bbbbbbbb
ccc

and yank it. What should I do?

Answer 1

The following sequence should do the trick

ggw<C-v>G$

where

gg    -- Goes to top of file
w     -- skips one word
<C-v> -- starts visual block select
G     -- selects until end of file
$     -- selects to end of each line

Answer 2

Switch to Visual Mode in Vim by pressing v in prompt

place the cursor in the column to select

Use ctrl+v to select a block to copy

Then the column alone will be selected and copy needed text alone and can yank it:)

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