Re: Is there a variable containing all tokens that matched a regex search term?

On 09/04/10 23:25, tomPorter wrote:
> If I enter a regex search term, all occurrences of the matched items
> in a window will be highlighted.
>
> Is there a way to create a new window and populate it with only the
> found items?
>
> OR is there a variable that contains all items matching the regex
> search term?
>
> Example:
>
> A colleague is working on a some large files where we use substitution
> variables than start with '&&'. Assume these are terminated by white
> space, so are 'words' to vim.
>
> He would like to extract just the tokens that start with '&&' and
> populate a new window with those, so he can pull the tokens from two
> separate files and see if all that occur in one occur in the other.
>
> I was stumped at how to get this done.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tom P.
>

There is no preexisting function or keybinding for that.

You can construct one, see
:help :function
:help search()
:help quote/

Best regards,
Tony.
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