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Re: [vile] searching for register contents
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [vile] searching for register contents |
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Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:29:19 -0400 |
brendan wrote:
> An option would be to permit a register prefix to ^X-/ search, in
> which case the search pattern would come from the register rather than
> the screen. Lightly tested implementation appended. Example use:
>
> "zy2e
>
> to yank two words to register z, then
>
> "z^X/
>
> to search for those two words.
...
> On 28 June 2013 19:17, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> > But wouldn't that require adding a prefix for "all" commands? [...]
>
> The way use-register (usekreg) works is to set up the register then
> parse the next command and run it before returning, so it is
> effectively a prefix for *all* commands. Note that this patch does
> actually work as-is, although it could of course be better documented
> and I didn't exhaustively test it.
>
> Note also that I've no particular horse in this race: I was more
> curious to see how hard it would be to handle the OP's requirement
> (and to avoid the Real Work I was *meant* to be doing at the time)
> rather than having a burning desire to see it implemented this
> specific way tomorrow.
it sounds like a nice addition, to me. it seems like to could be
a prefix to '/' instead of '^X-/', but there may be a subtlety to
that that i'm missing at the moment.
paul
>
> --bod
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