Troy Piggins wrote:
[...]
Filter looks promising. If you have figlet on your system, how do
you use it? Do you ever use it within vim? Do you have keys
mapped, or scripts?
[...]
You can replace a range of lines by its figlet representation: Here are a few
examples:
<Visual>!figlet
or
<Visual>:!figlet
which appears as
:'<,'>!figlet
replace the (linewise) Visual selection
:.,.+5!figlet
or
6!!figlet
replace the current line and the 6 lines following it
:%!figlet
replace the whole editfile
:1,3!figlet
replace the first three lines in the editfile
:/\<begin\>/+1;/\<end\>/-1!figlet
from the line after next line containing the word "begin" (after the cursor)
until, but not including, the first line with the word "end" following it
see
:help filter
:help [range]
In all the above examples, add after "!figlet" any command-line parameters
required by the figlet command (which takes its input on stdin and writes its
output to stdout, Vim takes care of that).
For instance, after typing the following 4 lines in an empty buffer:
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
followed by <Esc> (to go back to Normal mode) and ":1,2!figlet" (without the
quotes) you'll see that the edit buffer now contains (best viewed in a fixed
font):
__ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
| \/ | __ _ _ __ _ _ | |__ __ _ __| | __ _ | (_) |_| |_| | ___
| |\/| |/ _` | '__| | | | | '_ \ / _` |/ _` | / _` | | | | __| __| |/ _ \
| | | | (_| | | | |_| | | | | | (_| | (_| | | (_| | | | | |_| |_| | __/
|_| |_|\__,_|_| \__, | |_| |_|\__,_|\__,_| \__,_| |_|_|\__|\__|_|\___|
|___/
_ _
| | __ _ _ __ ___ | |__
| |/ _` | '_ ` _ \| '_ \
| | (_| | | | | | | |_) |
|_|\__,_|_| |_| |_|_.__( )
|/
___ _ __ _
|_ _| |_ ___ / _| | ___ ___ ___ ___ __ ____ _ ___
| || __/ __| | |_| |/ _ \/ _ \/ __/ _ \ \ \ /\ / / _` / __|
| || |_\__ \ | _| | __/ __/ (_| __/ \ V V / (_| \__ \
|___|\__|___/ |_| |_|\___|\___|\___\___| \_/\_/ \__,_|___/
_ _ _
__ _| |__ (_) |_ ___ __ _ ___ ___ _ __ _____ __
\ \ /\ / / '_ \| | __/ _ \ / _` / __| / __| '_ \ / _ \ \ /\ / /
\ V V /| | | | | || __/ | (_| \__ \ \__ \ | | | (_) \ V V /
\_/\_/ |_| |_|_|\__\___| \__,_|___/ |___/_| |_|\___/ \_/\_( )
|/
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
Best regards,
Tony.
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