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How to bind key-mapping for saving selected text to file in vim?

In vim, I select a text in visual mode, and type :w! ~/saved.txt, actually vim will execute :'<,'>w! ~/saved.txt. like this:

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The command will save the text into ~/saved.txt. In another vim instance, I can use :r ~/saved.txt to read from ~/saved.txt to the other vim.

This implement a global copy-paste on the same machine. I want to make this a vim-command/key-mapping, while I don't know how to implement it.

Solution

  • A simple key-mapping: 

    vnoremap ,w :w! ~/saved.txt<cr>
nnoremap ,r :r ~/saved.txt<cr>

    Replace ,w, ,r with your favour.