Re: override record

On 2015-11-10 07:38, shawn wilson wrote:
> How about this - is there an event that I can use to just redefine
> what vim already made with the same information?

I'm not sure what you mean by "an event". In my initial reply the

:let @a=substitute(@a, 'foo', 'bar', 'g')

was doing an in-place replacement without the need to worry about
escaping. You can assign to the macro register the results of munging
that same register. It doesn't have to use substitute() but rather
any transformation you want to use should be valid here as long as the
result is a string.

You can also execute the expression register as a macro if you need:

:let first=@a[:15]
:let remainder=@a[16:]
@=first . "my replacement here" . remainder

-tim


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