Maybe I missed it, is there no love for the piping to an external command?
I set a mark, move to somewhere else, then save the area between where I am and the mark: ma(assign mark "a" to position), jjj(move three lines away), |a(pipe from current-position to the "a" mark then a ! prompt appears so enter...) cat >somefile (which dumps the selected text, cur-pos to mark "a", into somefile).
That was great for saving snippets of news or emails.
Also, the -j setting. Sets the line position for searches so context is available, eg using -j8 means the search is 8 lines from the top of the screen.
I set a mark, move to somewhere else, then save the area between where I am and the mark: ma(assign mark "a" to position), jjj(move three lines away), |a(pipe from current-position to the "a" mark then a ! prompt appears so enter...) cat >somefile (which dumps the selected text, cur-pos to mark "a", into somefile).
That was great for saving snippets of news or emails.
Also, the -j setting. Sets the line position for searches so context is available, eg using -j8 means the search is 8 lines from the top of the screen.