Re: move range to a file that is open in another buffer

On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 8:23:17 AM UTC-5, Rick Dooling wrote:
> Dear Vim Wizards:
>
> If I'm in file1.txt and want to write a range to file2.txt, I can do:
>
> :'a,'bw >> file2.txt
>
> But if file2.txt is open in another buffer, I get an error E139.
>
> Is there a way to copy or move a range to another open buffer without getting this error?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick Dooling
>
> ps - I'll add the practical use I'm after. I often write in a main file, let's call it mainfile.txt but I also frequently cut paragraphs to a file of scraps, I'll call it scrapfile.txt
>
> So I'm trying to make a function that will append lines cut from mainfile.txt to scrapfile.txt, whether or not scrapfile.txt is open in another buffer.
>

Is there something wrong with the obvious method?

:'a,'by
" or :d instead of :y above for "cut" instead of "copy"
:sp scrapfile.txt
:$put
:wq

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