On 2015-05-28 13:54, skeept wrote: > He would use find with a string or regular expression. Then he can > mark all matching lines. He can repeat the process with several > strings. > > After that he would copy all the marked lines and paste to another > window.
The common way to do this is to pull the matches into a register: :let @a='' | g/pattern/y A This will gather all the lines matching "pattern" into the "a" register which you can paste within vim :new "ap or assign to the system clipboard: :let @+=@a If you have multiple search terms, you can (as you mention) build the expression out of the gate (or incrementally thanks to Vim's command-line history): :let @a='' | g/pattern1\|pattern2\|pattern3/y A That is what I usually do when I want this functionality. If you want to build it incrementally by searching instead, you can use the search register, recall the previous search, and append your additional term /pattern1<cr> /<up>\|pattern2<cr> [repeat until you have all the terms you want] :let @a='' | g//y A There might be some plugins that simplify these actions, but under the hood they would likely do the same thing as this. -tim -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
