Re: Open Hightlighted Text in Vim

williey wrote:
> How can I open a highlighted text string in Vim?

I'm not sure what you mean by "open":

open = "I have a filename/path selected in another application,
and I want to open that file in vim"
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Copy the filename to the system clipboard, open an empty vim and type

:e ^R+

where ^R is control-R. If you're on an X system instead of win32
or Mac, you can use the select buffer instead of the clipboard by
using "*" instead of "+"

:help c_CTRL-R
:help "+
:help "*

open = "I have some text visually selected in vim and I want to
'open' it in a way similar to one of the other definitions of
'open' for which I already have a solution"
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most of my other solutions use a register. You can yank to the
scratch register (by default) and the use double-quote to name it

^R"

in insert or command-line mode. Or you can yank your
visual-selection to a named register and paste that.

open = "I have some text highlighted in some other application
and I want to copy/paste it into vim"
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you can use the same trick since +/* are just registers, so you
can do the normal register "put"ting

"+p

or, while in insert mode, you can use ^R+ like in command-line mode

:help i_CTRL-R
:help p

open = "search for selected text"

> Can I set an option in my .vimrc file to do this?

It's not so much an option as using the tools vim provides.

-tim

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