How do I get the current visually selected text into a Vim variable or register?
register and then assigning the contents of the register into the variable: :normal! gvy :let myvar = @” The above command copies the visually selected text into the variable “myvar”. You can also use the command: :normal! gv”*y In the above command, gv reselects the last visually selected text and the rest of the command copies the selected text into the * (clipboard) register. Alternatively, you can set the ‘a’ flag in the ‘guioptions’ option to automatically copy a visually selected text into the * register. To do this as part of a visual map, you can use a command similar to the one shown below: :vmap
