On 01/04/12 11:00, howard Schwartz wrote:
I would like to write the contents of a register to a file. Easy enough
to grab the contents with let variable = getreg('a'). It would then be easy
if :echo variable > file worked like unix echo, but it doesnt. Any
simple way to get contents of some register a into a file of my
choosing? There is a writelist() function, but I do not know how to get
the context of a register into a list.
As an alternative to all that's already been said, you could also do the
following:
:new file | $put a | x
which can be assigned to the {rhs} of a mapping.
Pro: no need for an auxiliary variable
Con: a new window is opened and closed. This, however, should happen too
fast to be noticeable except that:
- it requires a Vim compiled with +windows (rarely a problem)
- if you're at the |hit-enter-prompt| (q.v.), it clears it.
The snippet above appends the register at the end of the file (and after
an empty line if the file didn't exist yet). Replace the dollar sign by
a zero to insert at top, by a line number (see |[range]|) to insert
after that line, or by nothing to insert after the current (usually
latest used) line in the file.
It is possible, with an if clause, to make the register contents the
only contents of the file if it didn't yet exist. The details are left
as an exercise to the reader. (Hint: see |filereadable()| and
|filewriteable()|)
See also |:execute| to read the file name (and path) and/or the register
name from a variable.
Best regards,
Tony.
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