On Tue 06 Apr 2021 at 08:34:24 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 apr 21, 22:29:31, David Wright wrote: > > > > But I don't know how vim would do on-the-fly filtering like > > less can do with & (not being very familiar with vim). > > A quick web search suggests: > > :v/pattern/d > > press 'u' to undo or ':w filename.txt' to write the result to a > different file.
That works fine; as you say, one has to learn the editor concerned, or at least learn some tricks that aren't always as straightforward in an editor as in less. Cheers, David.
