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SmokingKipper
SmokingKipper

Reputation: 125

Struggling a little with .vimrc and marks

Summary: 

let @c = "dd/##completed <CR> p"

Is not working, any suggestions?

I have recorded a macro which deletes a line, moves to another line (my ##completed section)and pastes the line to here.

This was working fine until I realised that the mark ('c - which directs to my ##completed section) does not stick to the text, but to the line itself (obvious now I think of it).

So instead I have altered my .vimrc to perform a search for the line ##completed and paste the contents below it.

The code is as follows...

let @c = "dd/completed <CR> p"

But this does not work, instead I am presented with "/completed p" inside my command line . So it seems that the vimrc is not processing the carriage return correctly, do I have the syntax wrong here?

Or if this is a terrible way of moving lines around, can anyone offer a better alternative?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 91

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172580

I don't fully understand your mapping, but you need to write \<CR> inside double quotes to get a carriage return; the backslash is missing. Alternatively, you can directly insert it via Ctrl + V (or Q on many Windows installations), followed by Enter.

Generally, I wouldn't preset a register (c, what you mistakenly refer to as "mark") in your .vimrc; if you need this often, define a mapping via :nnoremap. You can assign mappings to any free key sequence (and with <Leader>; i.e. backslash, you have a free starting key), but you only have 26 named registers.

For moving text, look into the :move command. This might do what you want:

:move /##completed

Upvotes: 4

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