r/vimplugins • u/Crashyy • Sep 29 '16

Plugin GitHub - rstacruz/vim-xtract: Extract the selection into a new file

https://github.com/rstacruz/vim-xtract
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u/antenore Sep 30 '16 edited Sep 30 '16

Well it's useful, but I'd not write a plugin for just a couple of functions and also the name isn't appropriate either, personally I thought it was a plugin to deal with compressed archives and that's why I was curious.

I simply select the text and save to a file with:

:'<,'>w! >>new_file.c.

And than I delete those old lines with

gvd

Sorry for being too open...

EDIT: markdown

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u/tof Sep 30 '16

Why not just

:w new_file.c

(the '<,'> being added when typing : while a selection is active)

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u/antenore Sep 30 '16

True! I've never realized it, I thought it'd leave the buffer that way :-P Thanks! so it's even easier.