On 10:52 Tue 25 Feb , Asis Hallab wrote: > Dear Vim experts, > > after recording a macro I realized that I forgot to specify the > register I yanked into. > > The macro in register q was > > /^[^#].*<-.*GO:\d\{7\}^My/)^M > > and matches lines like the following line 1 > 1 light <- c( 'GO:1234567', > 2 'GO:7162635', 'GO:4536271', > 3 'GO:7654321' ) > > the macro yanks everything up to, and including, line 3. > > The problem is, that I want to specify the register the content is yanked to. > So I tried > > :let @q='/^[^#].*<-.*GO:\d\{7\}^M"Gy/)^M' > > But the ^M form a problem. The macro is not executed correctly. > > Does anyone know how to solve this? > > Cheers!
You can dump the macro with: ^r^r"q (in the insert mode see :h i^r^r) then you can edit it and yank back to register q. Best regards, Marcin -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.