On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Manually that works. I did find that help section. But I want to do it automated. Is my answer in that help file? I will go back and read it again. If I have file.txt and I run a mapping that yanks some lines and start a new file and dumps the yanked text into that file and then :w how will Vim know what to name that file? How do I tell Vim what to name that file without doing it manually myself? -- 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
