On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 2:22:35 AM UTC-6, Enno wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There is a thread on StackOverflow labelled
> 
> "How to get visually selected text in VimScript"
> 
> The naive and stable approach would be
> 
>   let old_reg = @v
>   normal! gv"vy
>   let raw_search = @v
>   let @v = old_reg
>   return raw_search
> 
> but that only works if `set nosecure`. If `set secure` then 
> the functions become involved. I posted my own take at
> 

Can you explain what your problem with the 'secure' option is? I tried this 
test script, and can echo the return value just fine:

set secure
fun! GetVis()
  let old_reg = @v 
  normal! gv"vy 
  let raw_search = @v 
  let @v = old_reg 
  return raw_search 
endfun

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