Cut Current Line and Write to New File

[Roy Fulbright]

I know that ":.w myfile" will write the current line to a new file, but what I want is to write the current line to a new file AND cut it from the current file at the same time. I have searched help and the Vim wiki but cannot find any  single command to do this. Does anyone know how to do this with one command? Thanks in advance.

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[Tony Mechelynck]

Roy Fulbright wrote:
> I know that ":.w myfile" will write the current line to a new file, but
> what I want is to write the current line to a new file AND cut it from
> the current file at the same time. I have searched help and the Vim wiki
> but cannot find any single command to do this. Does anyone know how to
> do this with one command? Thanks in advance.

If you don't know how to do it with one command (and neither do I), we can
always create a mapping to do it with one key:

:map <F3> :exe ".w! myfile" | .d<CR>

The ":execute" wrapper around the ":write" command is necessary because
otherwise the bar would be seen as an argument to ":w", see ":help :|".

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Charles E. Campbell, Jr.]

Tony Mechelynck wrote:

>Roy Fulbright wrote:
>
>
>>I know that ":.w myfile" will write the current line to a new file, but
>>what I want is to write the current line to a new file AND cut it from
>>the current file at the same time. I have searched help and the Vim wiki
>>but cannot find any single command to do this. Does anyone know how to
>>do this with one command? Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>
>If you don't know how to do it with one command (and neither do I), we can
>always create a mapping to do it with one key:
>
> :map <F3> :exe ".w! myfile" | .d<CR>
>
>The ":execute" wrapper around the ":write" command is necessary because
>otherwise the bar would be seen as an argument to ":w", see ":help :|".
>
>

Or you could use <bar>, as in

:map <f3> w! myfile<bar> .d<cr>

Regards,
Chip Campbell

[Tony Mechelynck]

You should use <Bar> because ":map" doesn't see | as part of its arguments,
but you should also wrap the ":write" statement because it does see | (which
is what ":map" would transform <Bar> into) as part of _its_ arguments. So:

:map <F3> :exe ".w! myfile" <Bar> .d<CR>

Best regards,
Tony.
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[Roy Fulbright]

Thank you all for your help. I works great!
V/R,
Roy Fulbright

> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:24:34 +0100
> From: antoine.m...@gmail.com
> To: vim...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: Re: Cut Current Line and Write to New File

[Gary Johnson]

On 2008-01-11, Roy Fulbright <rful...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I know that ":.w myfile" will write the current line to a new file, but what I
> want is to write the current line to a new file AND cut it from the current
> file at the same time. I have searched help and the Vim wiki but cannot find
> any single command to do this. Does anyone know how to do this with one
> command? Thanks in advance.

!!cat > newfile

which will overwrite newfile or

!!cat >> newfile

which will append the line to newfile.

HTH,
Gary

[Ben Schmidt]

> !!cat > newfile
>
> which will overwrite newfile or

if it isn't actually a new file...

> !!cat >> newfile
>
> which will append the line to newfile.

if it isn't actually a new file...

Grins,

Ben.

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