On Thu, June 10, 2010 5:33 am, fuzzylogic25 wrote: > I am new to Vim. I am trying to open a very large document and copy the > occurrence of a particular word in every line. So for example lets say the > word "cat" appears 500 times in a 50,000 line document. I would like those > 500 lines saved to a file somehow, or at least copied so I can somehow > save > it to a file. > > Is there a way of doing this in vim? or should i use c programming to do > it?
Try this: :let @a="" This clears register a. Then :g/cats/:y A/ this appends all lines, that match cats into register a and then you have all matching lines in your register a. You can then copy it for example into your systems clipboard using: :let @+...@a or you can simply put it in a new buffer: :put a regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
