On 02/17/2011 10:44 PM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote:
I have a reasonably extensive repertory of edit commands from
which, I'd like to pick and chose individual commands and
execute them against my current buffer. I'd like to open the
file to be edited in buffer (a), and the repertory of
commands in buffer (b). And then I'd like to pick commands
from (b), and execute them on (a).
Depending on how you have the commands defined in buffer (b), if
they're literal (control-characters and all, which can do odd
things when reloading the doc), you can yank the line into a
register and then execute it as a macro. Depending on whether
they're normal-mode or ex/command/search-mode arguments (the
commands for which you'll want to prefix with the appropriate ":"
or "/"), you'll either want to include or exclude the trailing
newline:
0y$
Y
The first one goes to the beginning of the line and yanks to the
end (excluding the <CR>); the second one yanks the entire line
(including the <CR>) and executes it. You can then switch back
to buffer (a) and execute it with
@"
If you have several that you plan to use repeatedly, you can yank
them into various registers:
"aY
<move around in B>
"bY
<move around in B>
"cY
You now have 3 lines yanked into registers "a", "b" and "c" which
you can execute any time you want with
@a
@b
@c
I run out of the ability to remember what I've put in each
register before I run out of the 26 registers :)
If you want to automate this, you can create some mappings like
:nnoremap <f4> 0y$<c-w>p@"
:nnoremap <f5> Y<c-w>p@"
:vnoremap <f4> y<c-w>p@"
which will give you 3 mappings you can use in window "b", one for
normal-mode commands, one for ex/search-mode commands, and one
where you visually select the command you want to run (in case it
happens that you want to execute a command that spans multiple
newlines).
-tim
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