On 2021-11-03 12:36, L A Walsh wrote: > I wanted to write out an unclear character that my > cursor was over, so I tried to go into character VISUAL > selection mode by pressing Ctl-v, then ':w! /tmp/ch'. > Instead of the single character at the cursor, I got > the whole line. I also tried with a lower case 'v'.
The ex ":w" command is linewise, regardless of what visual-mode you were in, so you'll get the whole line. > How would I write out only the 1 character I had selected? You might try yanking it and then using the writefile() command :help writefile() to write that register out to a file: :call writefile(@", '/tmp/ch', 'b') As a further alternative, you might investigate the "ga" & "g8" commands :help g8 :help ga which will tell you further information about the particular character under the cursor. Hope this helps, -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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/20211103145444.47507a56%40bigbox.attlocal.net.
