* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 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
Thanks Luke,
That's neat. I later found that if you put the pattern into a named
buffer, you can paste it into the command line using
<ctrl-r>
which produces a greyed-out ", after which you can put the buffer name.
Also neat.
I found this in vim-tips.
Nick
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