Re: Regex "stealing" from another history

On 14.06.15 05:59, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> (I am using the terminal based vim on Gentoo Linux. The terminal
> is urxvt.)

OK, at least that's still X11.

> when trying to do complex regexp things, which even may be
> destructive to the text I use to try the regexp "pure" with
> "/" or similiar.
>
> Later, when the regexp do what I want it to do (READ:when I have
> managed to fix my faults in the regexp ;) I do the real thing
> like "s/ / /g" or such.

While there may be a way, using registers, simple is also attractive, I
think. I just use '/' <up-arrow> to retrieve the regex, highlight it
with the mouse, whack <escape> to clear the line, then middle-button-paste
it into the new command as it is entered. That way I don't have to
remember any of those funny registers. (Though that seemed easy enough,
decades ago.)

Erik

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