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VikingofRock: Aug 24, 2008

Hughmoris posted:

I'm running Windows 7. Is there a way to have Vim launch " :! " commands in powershell, instead of the command prompt? For instance, if I executed
code:
:! perl testScript.pl
I'd like that to launch in a powershell window because it makes copy/pasting/scrolling a lot easier.

According to this site the relevant commands are

code:

set shell=powershell
set shellcmdflag=-command

I don't have access to my windows box at the moment to test that out, but hopefully it works for you!

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VikingofRock: Aug 24, 2008

Hughmoris posted:

Is there a simple way to copy all regex matches in a file, and paste it into a new buffer? If not, maybe highlight all matches and delete anything that is not a match?

For the first:
:g/regex/y A will yank all matching lines into register a. Then you switch to your new buffer and hit :p"a to paste them. If you mess this up, hit qaq to clear register a before trying again.

For the second:
:v/regex/d will delete all non-matching lines.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 19:29

VikingofRock: Aug 24, 2008

Found an answer on stack exchange. Apparently what we want is this:

code:

:%s/regex/\=setreg('A', submatch(0), 'V')/gn

That yanks all the matches (and only the matches), separated by newlines, into buffer 'a'. You can then paste this as above.

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 21:29

VikingofRock: Aug 24, 2008

Hughmoris posted:

Thanks for the ideas. Yeah, I was hoping to grab just the captures and delete everything else. So, the starting text would be:
code:
adsfkjla"ORDER=PIZZA"djiasdf
nznjvzzajdf"ORDER=COKE"jaidjfa
nzxncvjzx"ORDER=CAKE"jadsmfa
and the ideal result would be the current buffer, or new buffer, containing
code:
PIZZA
COKE
CAKE

Gotcha. This worked for me:

code:

:%s/"ORDER=\([^"]\+\)/\=setreg('A', submatch(1), 'V')/gn #to copy matches into buffer a
"ap                                                      #to put from buffer a

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