Derek Wyatt's Blog

There’s a new video online in the Advanced Section called Globals, Commands and Functions. Go check it out.

Alright… I’ve had a lot of traffic lately and a lot of people emailing me (something’s occurred on the inter-web recently that’s picked up the interest in these videos beyond the usual 1k views per week… I don’t know what it was). This has sparked my interest in making more videos so that’s what I’m going to try and do.

But, in the last few months, I’ve also had a number of people asking me where they can send me a virtual beer, and I’ve had no place to do that. I never really cared, but hey… if a few bucks can offset my website costs every year then what the hell?

So, if you feel like making a donation of a few bucks, feel free to do so, and if you don’t, feel free to not do so :) Whatever you do, keep using Vim, and if you feel like making a donation to the Vim project instead, please do.

In an upcoming video tutorial, I’ll be doing a bit of work with the :redir command. This is a great Vim facility but it can be helped with a function wrapper. I’m including that wrapper here:

function! RedirToClipboardFunction(cmd, ...)
    let cmd = a:cmd . " " . join(a:000, " ")
    redir @*>
    exe cmd
    redir END
endfunction

command! -complete=command -nargs=+ RedirToClipboard
    \ silent! call RedirToClipbaordFunction(<f -args>)

This function allows you to run a command (such as :history, hint hint) and have the contents placed to the clipboard that you can then paste somewhere else.

The command that is created just makes it easier to use. For example:

:RedirToClipboard history : -50,