On 9 April 2010 22:25, tomPorter wrote: > 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 on a some large files where we use > substitution variables than start with '&&'. Assume > these are terminated by white space, so are 'words' to > vim. > > [...]
For a quick a quick hack, try this. :let tokens=[] :%s/&&\S\+/\=add(tokens,submatch(0))/g :undo :new :put=tokens --Antony -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.