vim - reading ex mode output into a file

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Published on 2010-04-03T23:21:55Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 23:33 UTC
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Hi

How can I read the output of an ex command into my current buffer?

For example, I want to read the contents of all the registers into the current buffer, which in ex mode is shown using ":registers"

Thanks

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