On Oct 26, 11:31 am, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, October 26, 2012 1:15:34 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote: > > is it possible to make a 'substitute' where the 'pattern' is taken from a > > file? > > Not unless you write a script to read the file and use :execute to build a > substitute command. What are you trying to accomplish? > > Note it's pretty easy to yank text from a buffer or copy it external to Vim > and paste it into a command-line. See :help c_CTRL-R.
I thought of creating wordlists in files for, such as, changing case of application specific keywords. The lists are not all that long, so embedding them in a :s in .vimrc would work. It was curiosity that posted this question. Bill -- 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
