Re: Vim: edit a register?


Mikolaj Machowski wrote:
> kar1107@xxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tried Internet search..couldn't find a right answer.
> >
> > Can I do a substitution on a register content?
> > I would like to yank a few C functions into register a.
> > Then do some s/foo/bar on contents of a; then paste a.
> > Repeat the process multiple times (with s/bar/baz.. etc).
>
> :let @a = substitute(@a, "bar", "baz", "")
>
> :help substitute()

Great.. exactly what I was looking for. Seems like there is a ton
of built-in functions which I never knew.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/eval.html#functions

Thanks,
Karthik

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