[SOLVED] Vim: how sort content of a register

porphyry5 · 09-24-2011, 03:12 PM

I have appended a series of title lines in "z and want to sort them before pasting them at the start of the document as an index.
Doing :"zsort is accepted by vim but produces no change in "z or ""

rigor · 09-24-2011, 04:22 PM

I'm not entirely sure I know what you're trying to do. But I put these lines in a file:

"zabc
"zghi
"zdef

then I opened the file with vim, and executed this command:

Code:

:1,$sort /^"z/

I ended up with the lines sorted as shown here:

Quote:

"zabc
"zdef
"zghi

porphyry5 · 09-24-2011, 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kakaka

I'm not entirely sure I know what you're trying to do.

The lines are already in a register. I appended them to the register one by one from different places in the file. I need to sort the content of the register, then paste the result at the start of the file.

So are you telling me the only way to do it is to paste the register first, then sort them in the buffer? That there is no way to sort them in the register?

Explicitly, in this case

Code:

:0put z
:1,.sort