Re: Preserving contents of a register in vimscript

On Thursday, 12 September 2013 10:08:57 UTC+1, ZyX wrote:
> // Use getreg()+getregtype() and setreg() with three arguments.
>
> What you are trying to achieve is not possible without pasting to some
> temporary buffer and reading with getline() then (when restoring) pasting
> again (with setline()) and using normal-mode y command. Just try to yank NUL
> (obtained by e.g. :call setline('.', "a\nb")) and restore it.

Thanks, I hadn't spotted those functions.
Paul

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