Re: saving results of searches

Hi,

jayeola wrote:
> Looking for a string when editing a file.....
>
> :%g/^function
>
> How does one save these results somewhere? Code is slowly growing and
> I an tempted to write these results down ;-) !!

One possible way:

:g/^function/.w! >> my-functions.lst

This will append every line that starts with "function" to the file
my-function.lst. I removed the range (%), because for :g % is the default.
This might get slow, because on every matching line the file is opened,
the line is written, and the file is closed. Also you have to make sure
the file does not exist if you want to create a clean list.

Another way:

:redir @a
:g/^function/
:redir END
:new
:put a
:w my-functions.lst

This redirects the list of your functions to register @a, creates a new
buffer, and pastes the content of register @a into the new buffer. This
has the advantage of letting you edit the result before saving it and
doing just one write at the end.

Regards,
Jürgen

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