Yup that was useful, but I am stuck at the next step of my quest.
I visually select the search pattern using "//<cr>v//e<cr>", then yank it to
a register - say 0 ("0yy).
After that, I want to evaluate the yanked text to delete the highlighted part
if it meets a condition, as in ->
:if (!(@0=~"set_reg")) | exe "normal //" | exe "normal v" | exe "normal //e"
| exe "normal d"| endif
But here instead visually selecting and deleting the match this command gets
stuck at - exe "normal v"; i.e. it gets into the visual mode but fails to do
the next set of commands.
What should it be instead of - exe "normal //e" ?
Regards,
Sibin
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Chase [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:40 PM
To: Sibin P. Thomas
Cc: Vim Mailing List
Subject: Re: how do u visually select a search pattern?
> I would like to search for the pattern "para\_.\{-}variable".
> When I am on the highlighted selections (3 pairs of lines in
> this case), I would like to yank the highlighted portion to a
> register (for evaluation etc).
Well, it's not quite what you describe, but it's like the "n/N"
functionality for finding the *next* (or previous) match and
highlighting it:
:nnoremap <f4> //<cr>v//e<cr>
:nnoremap <f5> ??e<cr>v??<cr>
It might also be handy to have some visual-mode mappings such as
:vmap <f4> <esc><f4>
:vmap <f5> <esc><f5>
So you can continue forward/backward in your searching.
Getting it to highlight the results immediatedly after searching
is a considerably more difficult stunt. Doable, but not without
a number of crazy stunts and mindbendingly opaque mappings. At
least from my determination of matters. YMMV ;)
HTH,
-tim
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