Hi Ernie,

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 07:20:43AM -0800, Ernie Rael <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> jVi had a feature request, something about supporting
> 
>    let @a= "some string"
> 
> which is supposed to initialized the named buffer at startup. Something the
> user wanted to use with macros. I pointed out that jVi persists named
> buffers between session and that satisfied his requirement. But, I can see
> how a feature like this would be handy.
> 
> I can't find a description of the "@a=" behavior in vimhelp. A pointer is
> appreciated.

You can write this in your .vimrc and have the named register a
have initialized that way:

let @a = "some string"

see
:help :let-@
for the help on that.

> -ernie

Ciao,
Thomas

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