Monday, January 27, 2014

Re: How to Move/Copy multi-line search matches?

How about using //e to extend a visual selection?

Say the current search is your multi-line pattern, then

:let @a=""
:g//exe "normal v//e\<cr>$\"Ay"

appends the text of each match into register a, as whole lines (thanks to the $).

Regards, John Little

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