On 2008-10-23 10:46-0700, Aman Jain wrote:
>
>Hi
>
>I was wondering if there's a way to see the output of any command,
>straight inside vim, rather than first redirecting it into a file and
>then opening that file.
>
>E.x. I need something like
>$ gvim < `diff -r dir1/ dir2/`
>This gives ambiguous redirect error message
>
>I just want to see the diffs between dir1 and dir2 straight inside
>gvim.
>
>Can any one provide a nice hack?
This sounds like what you want:
diff -r dir1/ dir2/ | vim -
The filename "-" tells Vim to read from stdin until EOF. One of my favorite
hacks with this is to set Vim as my pager. I put the following settings in my
.bashrc and .vimrc. Note that unlike many other Vim PAGER settings, this one
works with man pages (avoids circular aliasing; allows following referenced man
pages; handles both platforms where the man is run in a subshell and where man
is executed directly without a subshell):
export PAGER="/bin/sh -c \"unset PAGER;col -b -x | \
vim -R -c 'set ft=man nomod nolist' \
-c 'map q :q<CR>' \
-c 'map <SPACE> <C-D>' \
-c 'map b <C-U>' \
-c 'nmap K :Man <C-R>=expand(\\\"<cword>\\\")<CR><CR>' \
-\""
AND you must put this at the top of your .vimrc:
" Unset PAGER environment variable. This works with the PAGER in
" .profile or .bashrc. Avoids recursive Vim execs when using
" Vim's Man command.
let $PAGER=''
By the way, there is a DirDiff plugin for Vim that I found to be very
helpful. It's come to my rescue many times. See:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=102
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