RE: Write register contents to file

howard Schwartz wrote:
> I would like to write the contents of a register to a file.
> Easy enough to grab the contents with let variable =
> getreg('a'). It would then be easy if :echo variable > file
> worked like unix echo, but it doesnt. Any simple way to get
> contents of some register a into a file of my choosing? There is a
> writelist() function, but I do not know how to get the
> context of a register into a list.

The following writes the default yank register to file x.tmp.

:call writefile(split(@@, "\n", 1), 'x.tmp')

John

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