On Apr 19, 4:33 pm, Noah <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is it possible to open a window with all
> the registers value listed and editable?
> Or is it possible to open a window that shows
> just one given register that I want to edit?
> I'm thinking of a special 'buftype' window
> like *cmdline-window except that when
> I run :wq the contents will be saved back
> into the register. This would be very handy
> for editing macros stored in registers.
>
I don't know of such a thing...there may be a plugin though.
> Currently I have to paste the register to a
> new line; edit the text; do a visual select;
> then delete the selected text back into the
> original register. Not hard, but tedious.
> It seems like I should be able to do
> something like this:
>
You can actually set a register value in two more ways that may be
easier in some situations.
1. Use the "let" command.
Example, :let @q='aThis is a test^['
2. Use the setreg() function.
Example, :call setreg(q, 'aThis is a test^[')
Either of these methods can be used to modify an existing register by
recalling the current register contents.
For example, for method 1, type:
:let @q='
Then type CTRL-R CTRL-R q to get the literal contents of the register
on the command line.
Then enter a closing ' and hit enter.
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