Re: Save part from file.txt to file1.txt ?

On Monday, January 14, 2013 10:42:27 AM UTC-6, Jack Gates wrote:
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> Manually that works. I did find that help section. But I want to do it
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> automated. Is my answer in that help file? I will go back and read it
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> again. If I have file.txt and I run a mapping that yanks some lines
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> and start a new file and dumps the yanked text into that file and then
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> :w how will Vim know what to name that file? How do I tell Vim what to
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> name that file without doing it manually myself?

See your other thread. :w is one of those commands that can use % with modifiers directly, or you can use :execute with expand() and whatever else you want.

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