Is there a variable containing all tokens that matched a regex search term?

2010-04-09 Thread tomPorter
If I enter a regex search term, all occurrences of the matched items in a window will be highlighted. Is there a way to create a new window and populate it with only the found items? OR is there a variable that contains all items matching the regex search term? Example: A colleague is working o

q: shows previous : commands, q/ shows previous searches, can I find/recall previous motion commands?

2010-03-09 Thread tomPorter
Lets say I did '3cw' to replace three words a couple of commands ago. (or 'd$' or any action/motion pair like this) Is there a way to see a list/an editable list of previous commands of this type? Sorry if this is a FAQ. Tom P. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not t

Re: Can vim view VERY large files w/o having to load entire file into memory?

2009-04-04 Thread tomPorter
On Apr 3, 11:56 pm, "Robert R. Melton" wrote: > On 4/3/2009 10:49 PM, Tom Porter wrote: > > > [...] > > We currently have a kludge wrapper that does a head -1 on the file > > to a temp file and them lets us look at the results using vim, but in > > the cases where data being sought is not i

Can vim view VERY large files w/o having to load entire file into memory?

2009-04-03 Thread tomPorter
We currently use an old version of the crisp editor (running in read- only mode) on our solaris boxes to view extremely large files, in some cases approaching 2G. The nice thing about crisp is that it will pull a small chunk of the file into memory and immediately display it, then as you scroll t