Re: [vile] searching for register contents

[Brendan O'Dea]

On 28 June 2013 10:40, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:47:57PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
>> If I yank a word (or words) into a register is there a way to search
>> the current buffer for that registers contents?
>
> hmm.  That puts the content into the unnamed buffer as well as kill-buffer-1.
> The $kill variable gets part of that (I recall as the first chunk, which
> should be enough for word/words), so you could assign that to $search,
> and use it - provided there are no metacharacters.

An option would be to permit a register prefix to ^X-/ search, in
which case the search pattern would come from the register rather than
the screen.  Lightly tested implementation appended.  Example use:

  "zy2e

to yank two words to register z, then

  "z^X/

to search for those two words.

--bod

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