On 4/27/06, Yegappan Lakshmanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Suresh,
>
> On 4/27/06, Suresh Govindachar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > What's the best way to get the contents
> > of a file into a register? I tried the
> > following (file is foo.bat), but it
> > doesn't get rid of the new buffer:
> >
> > :new|r foo.bat|1d|normal "ayG|q!
> >
> > So why does the q! get lost, and is there
> > a better way?
> >
>
> In Vim7, you can use the readfile() function:
>
> let l = readfile("foo.bat")
>
> This returns a List with an entry for each line in the file.
>
You can also do the following:
new | r foo.bat | let l = getbufline('%', 1, '$') | q!
- Yegappan
