I'd like echo line from a hidden buffer without moving my cursor. Something like this:
:redir! > /tmp/myfile
:1,$print 3
:redir end
(I want to inspect hidden buffers without changing the window layout or the cursor position.)
The above works great for the current buffer, but :print
doesn't take a buffer as an argument.
Is there some vim command that prints the lines in a buffer?
(And FWIW, I can't use :w
because that also changes the names and numbers of the open buffers.)
:b
to that hidden buffer? – romainl Feb 6 '13 at 19:34