Re: search file for text in reg ?

On 2018-12-14 09:48, M Kelly wrote:
> Is there a way to search a file for the text that is in a register ?

Is the content of the register literal text or a regular expression?

If it's a regular expression (or doesn't have any regex metachars in
it), you can use

:let @/=@a

where "@a" is the register in question. You can then use n/N to
navigate forward/backward.

If it's literal text that might contain regexp metachars, you have to
escape them:

:let @/=escape(@a, '.*\\$^')

(adjust the set of escaped characters accordingly; I just grabbed a
few I knew to be problematic)

-tim



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