fuzzylogic25 wrote: > I am new to Vim. I am trying to open a very large document > and copy the occurrence of a particular word in every line. > So for example lets say the word "cat" appears 500 times in a > 50,000 line document. I would like those 500 lines saved to a > file somehow, or at least copied so I can somehow save it to a file.
Some techniques are shown here (including :g/pattern/y A): http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Copy_the_search_results_into_clipboard John -- 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
