Re: Visual selection via :global

On 2020-07-24 04:43, Manas wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 05:57:51PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote:
>> On 2020-07-24 03:48, Manas wrote:
>>> Hi folks, I have a markdown file containing a couple of
>>> headings and some pointers as shown below.
>>>
>>> ```
>>> # Heading 1
>>> - pointer 1
>>> - pointer 2
>>> - pointer 3
>>>
>>> ## Heading 2
>>> - pointer 4
>>> - pointer 5
>>> ```
>>>
>>> I wanted to visual select all pointers only.
>>
>> Vim doesn't (to the best of my knowledge without hacky plugins)
>> support disjoint selections. That said, you don't mention what
>> you want to *do* with those lines once you've selected them.
>
> I want to yank those lines in order to paste somewhere else. In this
> particular case, I wanted to send it to someone.

Ah, the typical idiom here is to empty a register and then
yank-appending (yank into a capital-letter-named register) each of
the matching lines like

:let @a='' | g/^-/y A

This will gather all the matching lines into register "a" which you
can then either paste elsewhere, or transfer directly to your
system clipboard-register with

:let @+=@a

This lets you use any pattern you want to put matching lines on the
clipboard.

Hope this helps,

-tim

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