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

On Monday, January 27, 2014 2:26:05 AM UTC-6, John Little wrote:
> How about using //e to extend a visual selection?
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> Say the current search is your multi-line pattern, then
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> :let @a=""
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> :g//exe "normal v//e\<cr>$\"Ay"
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> appends the text of each match into register a, as whole lines (thanks to the $).
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I like this approach, but I wouldn't even bother with visual mode. I'd just use the gn object introduced in Vim 7.4. So instead of exe it would be 'normal "Aygn' to yank the entire match and append to the A register.

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