Re: Where are vim macros stored

On 5/28/21 10:47 AM, Karthick Gururaj wrote:
> I'm mostly an observer here - but..
> A. You should know you got a useful and correct response to your question
> B. If that is not the answer you are looking for, you should go back
> and check the question you asked.
> C. Entirely optional - but politeness goes a long way.
>
> You can "edit" the contents of the registers in many ways. You can
> even set the register directly with a :let
> :let @a="D"
> You can view it with an :echo @a
>
> However - if you are using registers for recording macros - the
> register may not have printable characters.

I just want to open the file and edit it. I don't want to go through
the manturations of vim, which is why I asked where they are stored.

You are right that politeness goes a long way, and so does the
politeness that requires short communication that is the point which is
exactly what I did.

Quoting back the manual for macros is significantly less polite in this
context. If the manual and tutorials had what I wanted, or if I could
discover the necessary file with find (and I don't know why that didn't
work actually), I wouldn't have asked the question on the public mailing
list. SO I asked specifically "where are they stored" They are stored
in memory is sort of an answer. They don't generate from the eether, so
they need to come from some file. I used to handle these things with
.vim, files or directly with vimrc in vim scripting language.

For future generations reading this.... vim writes back to ~/.viminfo
when you run the :wq! command. So you need to edit viminfo in vi mode
or another editor, otherwise it just overwrites your edits.

also qf in a command starts a new macro @F
where as qF just appends to the existing macro.

It says this in the docs, but the language is not clear.

Thanks for the help

Reuvain

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