Re: How to insert text into buffer from vim commandline?

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Phani Deepak Parasuramuni
<phanidee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks. that worked great!
> I was thinking of storing the value(PLT_count) into a register(clipboard)
> and then printing it via 'p'. But now the problem is I am only able to store
> the value in " register and am not able to store in any other named
> register(a,b,c etc.,)
> The sequence that works now:
> "=PLT_count
> p
> The sequence which I want to work out fine is:
> "v=PLT_count
> p
> What the syntax to store a global variable's value into register rather than
> the content from d or y operations?
To answer your question directly, you should use the '@' notation. For e.g,
let @a = PLT_count
stores the value of PLT_count in register 'a'.

But I do not understand why you need this! Can you post your function
(MyFunc in the mail below)?

Instead of using macros, it is easier to do the following:
" Initlize PLT_count first
let PLT_count = 0
" Search for all PLT's and replace them with the count
g/PLT/ let PLT_count = PLT_count+1|s/PLT/\="PLT" . PLT_count/

See
:help :s\=

> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Karthick Gururaj
> <karthick.gururaj@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Phani Deepak Parasuramuni
>> <phanidee@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > Is there anyway I can insert some text(say "Phani%d",count) into the
>> > buffer
>> > at cursor position?
>> > This is my use case.
>> > I have a code where in at specific places I have some text like "//
>> > PLT".
>> > Now I want to append a serial number to this 'PLT' every where. So that
>> > all
>> > the lines with PLT will now become  "// PLT1", "// PLT2" etc.,
>> > This is the way I am thinking of doing this.
>> > 1. Maintain the count in global variable say PLT_count
>> > 2. First search for "// PLT"
>> > 3. Now record a macro(a) with these commands
>> >       a. qa ; record the macro to register a
>> >       b. call MyFunc which appends the PLT_count to "PLT"
>> >       c. n ; so that I 'll move cursor to the next PLT line.
>> >       d. q ; stop recording
>> > Now since I know that I have 55 occurrences of PLT
>> > I 'll do 55@a
>> > Now, the problem is how to write MyFunc, where I specifically need to
>> > insert
>> > text( "%d",PLT_count) at the cursor position.
>> With the cursor on 'P' of PLT, you can execute:
>>   :execute 'normal ' . 'RPLT' . PLT_count
>>

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