Re: Use registers in search and replace?

bpj

On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 2:28 PM, BPJ <bpj@melroch.se> wrote:
> On 2013-01-13 19:37, stosss wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Bee <forth@calcentral.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Correction:
>>> That should be \a not \w because \w includes 0-9
>>>
>>> :s#<a href="\(\a\{4,13}\)\d\{1,3}\.html">.*#\1#c
>>>
>>
>> I appreciate the effort but that doesn't solve the problem. Also
>> thanks for the knowledge of the \a because I didn't know that and I
>> don't remember seeing it in the help files. s/// is usually not a
>> problem for me but I can't find if the contents of a register can be
>> dropped into the s///. If not then I need to find a way to solve the
>> visual mode approach of grabbing the letters. It appears I am trying
>> to cross between normal, visual and command line at the same time.
>>
>
> :h c_CTRL-R
>

Thanks for sharing this. I will figure out how to make it work for me.

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