On 27 Mar, Nick Croft wrote:
> Can anyone help me with a vim technique for pasting a pattern into the
> command line. Specifically I'd like to yank a pattern and copy it in to
> a substitute command, e.g.
>
> :s/pattern/substitute/
>
> I've searched the vim-tips db, and looked through the user manual in
> /usr/share/doc/vim/html.
Maybe because it's always been possible in vi; i.e., it's not a vim
extension. Just put the command text you want to execute into a named
buffer, then execute the named buffer. In your case:
:s/pattern/substitute/
then for example (deleting the text into buffer s), say:
"sdd
@s
luke
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