Re: Making :grep easier to use

[Stefan Karlsson]

A bit off-topic, but in addition to yank and paste (e.g. ") you can
use  to insert the word under the cursor.

-- 
Stefan

Re: Making :grep easier to use

[thomas scott urban]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:32 -0800, David Frey wrote:
> Often times I am looking at a file and there is a certain string sitting
> infront of me that I want to grep for.
> 
> Right now, I go into command mode and type
> :grep "some_string" *.extension
> 
> Is it possible to yank some_string and then paste it into the command? 
> It would save me a lot of typing when I am grepping for strings.

On the command line

"

insert the contents of the unnamed yank buffer. 

:he c_


> Thanks