On Monday 04 October 2010 16:03:28 Ven Tadipatri wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if there was a way to paste the contents of > a buffer when in command line mode. For example, if I want to > search for the word that I'm on, I was thinking of > highlighting it in visual mode, yanking it into a buffer, > then searching for what I yanked.
and i'm wondering if what you're really looking for here is the '*' and '#' commands -- no need to yank anything, no need for visual anything, just put the cursor over the word you want to search for and hit the asterisk -- a real convenience feature -- asterisk searches forward, hash searches backward sc -- 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
