On 5/28/21 10:47 AM, Karthick Gururaj wrote: > I'm mostly an observer here - but.. > A. You should know you got a useful and correct response to your question > B. If that is not the answer you are looking for, you should go back > and check the question you asked. > C. Entirely optional - but politeness goes a long way. > > You can "edit" the contents of the registers in many ways. You can > even set the register directly with a :let > :let @a="D" > You can view it with an :echo @a > > However - if you are using registers for recording macros - the > register may not have printable characters.
I just want to open the file and edit it. I don't want to go through the manturations of vim, which is why I asked where they are stored. You are right that politeness goes a long way, and so does the politeness that requires short communication that is the point which is exactly what I did. Quoting back the manual for macros is significantly less polite in this context. If the manual and tutorials had what I wanted, or if I could discover the necessary file with find (and I don't know why that didn't work actually), I wouldn't have asked the question on the public mailing list. SO I asked specifically "where are they stored" They are stored in memory is sort of an answer. They don't generate from the eether, so they need to come from some file. I used to handle these things with .vim, files or directly with vimrc in vim scripting language. For future generations reading this.... vim writes back to ~/.viminfo when you run the :wq! command. So you need to edit viminfo in vi mode or another editor, otherwise it just overwrites your edits. also qf in a command starts a new macro @F where as qF just appends to the existing macro. It says this in the docs, but the language is not clear. Thanks for the help Reuvain -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/7d9128d8-64ee-746b-2562-dd4572939ee6%40my.liu.edu.
