Re: search file for text in reg ?

2018-12-15 Thread M Kelly
Hi, > /a Tony, thanks, That is also great to know and I will use it. thank you and everyone for vim, -m -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit

Re: search file for text in reg ?

2018-12-15 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:55 PM Tim Chase wrote: > > On 2018-12-14 09:48, M Kelly wrote: > > Is there a way to search a file for the text that is in a register ? > > Is the content of the register literal text or a regular expression? > > If it's a regular expression (or doesn't have any regex

Re: search file for text in reg ?

2018-12-14 Thread M Kelly
Hi, > :let @/=@a Awesome, thank you Tim. -m -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are

Re: search file for text in reg ?

2018-12-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 2018-12-14 09:48, M Kelly wrote: > Is there a way to search a file for the text that is in a register ? Is the content of the register literal text or a regular expression? If it's a regular expression (or doesn't have any regex metachars in it), you can use :let @/=@a where "@a" is the

search file for text in reg ?

2018-12-14 Thread M Kelly
Hi, Is there a way to search a file for the text that is in a register ? thx always for everything vim, -m -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit