I use doxygen documentation for c code. Now I want to move these documentation to a saparate dox file. Is there any quick and simple solution to yank these doxygen comments in vim?
/**
*....
*....
*/
/*!
*...
*...
*...
*/
I know I can use y% to yank all code in block when cursor is on first /. But our documentation is all over the file and it's hard to yank one by one.
This is pretty standard and general technique.
Press qaq to clear register "a". Then enter command:
:g/regex1/ .,/regex2/ yank A
Where regex1 is a regular expression to match the start of a block, and regex2 matches the end of a block.
Now all relevant lines should get into register "a".
I thik we need a non-greedy search to avoid coping everything from the first comment to the end of the second or last one. Something like this:
:let @a=''
:g/\v^\/\*\_.{-}\*\//yank A
And as we are appending content to the register A it is recommended to clear it first, that's why :let @a=''.