Re: Use Register as Search Pattern in Ex Mode silent

On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 3:30:26 PM UTC-5, Marcel Jödicke wrote:
> vim c:\ip.txt -e -s +let @/=getline('.')
>
> and vim had problem somehow to use let in that context.

The problem is the space in the command. The shell doesn't understand that's a single argument to pass to Vim. Just use quotes:

vim c:\ip.txt -e -s +"let @/=getline('.')"

Or, the -c flag if you prefer:

vim c:\ip.txt -e -s -c "let @/=getline('.')"

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