Re: 'pattern' from file

On Oct 26, 11:31 am, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 1:15:34 PM UTC-5, Bee wrote:
> > is it possible to make a 'substitute' where the 'pattern' is taken from a file?
>
> Not unless you write a script to read the file and use :execute to build a substitute command. What are you trying to accomplish?
>
> Note it's pretty easy to yank text from a buffer or copy it external to Vim and paste it into a command-line. See :help c_CTRL-R.

I thought of creating wordlists in files for, such as, changing case
of application specific keywords.

The lists are not all that long, so embedding them in a :s in .vimrc
would work.

It was curiosity that posted this question.

Bill

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