On Sep 17, 10:41 am, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there a way to take a line from the editing buffer and then execute
> > it or source it.
> > For example, I was going through a textfile where several linux
> > commands were written. Now since I am lazy :), I don't like to go to
> > insert mode, then copy that line, then enter exec mode, and then paste
> > and then press enter. Oh Man its too tedious!!
>
> Heh, lazy after my own heart.
>
> If they are Ex commands, and have the leading colon, you can just
> yank them and then execute them as a macro:
>
> Highlight these two lines:
>
> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
> :%s/foo/bar/g
> :%s/fred/barney/g
> """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
>
> and yank them. Then execute them with
>
> @"
>
> (or, if you yanked to a named register with "ay then you can
> playback with @a instead). I actually use this method quite a
> bit to create huge search/replace pairs (usually from a
> tab-delimited source file) into a huge list of Ex statement like
> above.
Can you provide an example, i didn't understand the search/replace
thing.
> I then just issue ":%y" to yank the whole result and then
> @" to execute it in another window.
>
> If they don't have leading colons, then it may be fastest to just
> use blockwise visual-mode to add 'em.
Can you provide example for blockwise visual mode?
> If they are normal mode commands, having them on multiple lines
> isn't a very clean way to use them. However, you can yank the
> selection of them and then execute that as a macro.
>
> Either way, the game is the same, and could be automated
> something like
>
> :nnoremap <f4> ^y$@"
> :vnoremap <f4> y@"
>
> -tim
Thanks Tim, I really appreciate you guys helping me out learn the
trade!!
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