>
> Hi,
>
> I want to set the contents of the numbered registers ( 1-9) to nothing, each
> time I enter a buffer. Thus only yanks and deletes done in the current buffer
> will make their way into numbered registers. To this end, I put the following
> autocommand in my .vimrc file:
>
> au BufRead * for i in range(1,9) | let @i = "" | endfor
>
> Tha shoud let @1 = "" and @2 = "" and so on. But the i variable never iterates
> to numbers. Instead this line just sets the register named, i, to nothing.
> I've tried quoting i, using eval etc. Always, the i is not evaluated as a
> number in the let statements. I must be doing something simple wrong?
You should use ":exe[cute]":
au BufRead * for i in range(1,9) | exe "let @" . i . " = ''" | endfor
That (extremely useful) command executes a string as if it was fed to Vim.
Best,
Paul
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