Re: Writing to filename in variable

Thanks for your suggestions. I ended up using :

let filename = "blah.txt"
sav %:s/.*/\=file_name/

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 7:39 PM, ZyX <zyx.vim@gmail.com> wrote:

Reply to message «Writing to filename in variable»,
sent 03:31:46 26 January 2011, Wednesday
by Colin Beighley:

If your filename cannot contain newlines:
   w `=variable`
. If it can:
   execute "w ".fnameescape(variable)
.

Original message:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to be able to write to a file in a variable name, or alternatively
> change the current filename (the % register) or the alternate filename. Is
> there any way to do any of these?
>
> Thanks
> Colin

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