Monday, January 27, 2014

Re: How to Move/Copy multi-line search matches?

Thanks for the reply John.
This method isn't good enough for my use case since I want to copy all
of the matches simultaneously, not just one of them.

However, this method will work when used as part of a macro and is
something which I already used.
I was looking for a single step method.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:56 PM, John Little <John.B.Little@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about using //e to extend a visual selection?
>
> Say the current search is your multi-line pattern, then
>
> :let @a=""
> :g//exe "normal v//e\<cr>$\"Ay"
>
> appends the text of each match into register a, as whole lines (thanks to the $).
>
> Regards, John Little
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