Write text under the cursor to new file and delete it form current file

Question

I have this in my vimrc:

" Export text under the cursor
noremap <leader>e :w! >><Space>

This allows me to select text using visual mode, press leader e, type a file name, and append the text under the cursor to that file.

I would like to also have the text under the cursor be deleted from the current file as part of this command, but I don't know how to accomplish that.

Answer 1

It seems you are using this mapping line-wise by selecting lines with V before executing <leader>e. This is worth a command in my opinion.

command! -range=% -nargs=1 -complete=file MoveTo
        \ <line1>,<line2>write! >> <args> | <line1>,<line2>d_

• -range=% to allow a range, if none, consider the whole buffer
• -nargs=1 -complete=file accept one argument and allow file completion for it
• MoveTo name of the command...
• <line1>,<line2>write! >> <args> append lines from the range to the given argument
• | <line1>,<line2>d_ then delete the lines in the black hole register so that they aren't copied in ""

Then

xnoremap <leader>e :MoveTo<Space>
nnoremap <leader>e :MoveTo<Space>

:h user-commands, :h quote_