On Fri, July 15, 2011 10:42 am, sinbad wrote: > it works if register contents are small. but if the register contents > are huge, > spanning multiple lines t might not work.
It doesn't look nice on the command line, plus you possibly need to shellescape the contents, but other than that, I don't know, why it shouldn't work? Do you see an error? Anyway, in that case, it might be better to write the register contents into a temporary file and use that file for the shell command. :h tempname() :h writefile() 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
