How do you yank all matching lines into a buffer?
Given a file like:
match 1
skip
skip
match 2
match 3
skip
I want to be able issue a command to yank all lines that match a pattern (/^match/ for this example) into a single buffer so that I can put it into another doc, or into a summary or whatever.
The command should wind up with this in a buffer:
match 1
match 2
match 3
My first thought was to try:
:g/^match/y
But I just get the last match. This makes sense, because the :g command is effectively repeating the y for each matching line.
Perhaps there is a way to append a yank to buffer, rather than overwriting it. I couldn't find it.
:help registers
:help quote_alpha
Specify a capital letter as the register name in order to append to it, like :yank A.