On Jul 15, 11:11 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-07-15, sinbad wrote: > > hi, > > > how to pass vim register contents to shell command. > > See > > :help c_CTRL-R > > For example, to insert the contents of the a regsiter to a grep > command to search for that string in all files in the current > directory, you would type > > :!grep "^Ra" * > > where everything is typed literally except ^R which means to hold > the Ctrl key while hitting the R key. > > Regards, > Gary
it works if register contents are small. but if the register contents are huge, spanning multiple lines t might not work. thanks -- 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
