如何在Vim的命令行模式下搜索和复制Ex命令的输出？

Question

Some command-line mode commands (ie the Ex commands, not shell commands) in Vim can produce output that are several line longs. I have two questions about it.

• How can I search for a particular word in it?
• How can I copy something from it and paste it into the buffer I am editing?

I see that in my Vim, the more pager is used when the output is more than one screen full, so I think that brings more complexity to this question because the solution may differ when the more pager is involved.

Answer 1

EDITED because I originally misunderstood the question:

help :redir should tell you how to do it. For a specific example:

:redir @h
:silent highlight
:redir END
"hp

Start redirection to the register h , run your command without showing it on the screen (and without running it through the pager), stop the redirection, paste the contents of the h register.