Re: Period in global command

On Fri, May 25, 2012 11:40, John Degen wrote:
> I'm having trouble understanding why there is a period before "w" in the
> following command:
>
> :'a,'b g/^Error/ .w >> errors.txt
>
> Does it indicate the current directory? It's difficult searching the help
> for just a ".";)

It's a range. See :h range and in your case means to only append the
current line found by the :g command into the file errors.txt

regards,
Christian

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