On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 05:25:44PM -0700, Denis Perelyubskiy wrote:
> I am trying to emulate textpad. In textpad, when cursor is over some
> word and you press ctrl-f5 the search box pops up, and a word is in the
> input area.
>
> So, an equivalent behavior (at least for now :-)) in vim is to press
> ctrl-f5 and have a word show up in the string
> :vimgrep/WORD/j c:/projects/foo/**/*.[ch]
>
> I know how to do this in a kludgy way, by yanking the word with viwy.
> However, that "kills" the * register. The question is whether it is
> possible to do what i want through some temp register, without
> "killing" the * (or using the * and then restoring it):
The <cword> on command line expands to the word under the cursor. I
generally use
command! PartialWordGrep grep -I <cword> *.*
in my ~/.vimrc, which is similar to what you want to do. You can modify
as needed. Also relevant would be the expand() function.
GI
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