Re: [vile] (no subject)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 05:48:34PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 04:58:25PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > store-procedure show-register string="reg" "show the contents of a 
> > > > single register"
> > > >     ~local %bn
> > > >     setv %bn &cat "register-" $1
> > > >     find-file %bn
> > > >     1 goto-line
> > > >     delete-lines-til end-of-file
> > > >     put $1
> > > > ~endm
> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > > 
> > > > I've tried:
> > > > 
> > > > put "$1"
> > > > $1 put
> > > > "$1" put
> > 
> > You should be able to do
> > 
> >     use-register $1 put
> > 
> > -- 
> > Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
> > http://invisible-island.net
> > ftp://invisible-island.net
> 
> Thanks, worked like a charm. Here is the complete version of
> show-register in case anyone else finds it useful.

thanks - I'll try this out.

I'm working on a change to add a register-type parameter, which would
let someone do name-completion to notice that it's really a register name.
(Seems overkill, but probably friendlier).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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