On Monday, January 14, 2013 9:41:42 AM UTC-6, Jack Gates wrote: > I haven't found it in help yet because I'm probably not searching correctly. > > > > I want save the yanked text from one large file and save it to another > > file. I can do this manually with no problem but how to do it > > automated has escaped me so far. > > > > I want to generate file1.txt, file2.txt, file3.txt from file.txt with a > mapping. > > > > I open file.txt yank "a50Y another "b50Y another "c50Y > > > > :tabnew 3 times paste a, b, c into the 3 files. > > > > Now I have 4 files open and 3 not saved. How to tell Vim to save and > > name them file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt > > > > Will someone point me to the correct help file please.
Look through :help :write and :help :write_f for the various ways to write output to a file. For example, :7,42w >> blah.txt Will append lines 7-42 of the current file to the end of existing other file blah.txt. -- 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
