Re: copy highlighted text after : prompt

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Daniel Fetchinson wrote:

> I use * regularly to search for words and the results are nicely
> highlighted. Many times I need to copy these terms after the : prompt
> (what is its name? command prompt? status bar?) for example when I need to
> grep for it in other files or search-and-replace it, etc.
>
> Is this possible?

Hi Daniel,

Are you aware that if you leave the search field "blank", i.e.

:s//replacement/

then Vim just uses the most recent search text? This means that if you use
the * command to search for a word, and then execute the command above, the
word will be replaced with "replacement" without you needing to type it in.
Similarly, you could do

:g//

to find all occurrences of the most recent search term in the file.

HTH,
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