Thanks for the replies, but that was not exactly what I meant. The
example was just an example. Another example would be:
vim | mail -s “subject” [email protected]
I'm more interested in the general case. Piping is something very
common in unix, and I wondered if vim supported it fully.
Kind regards, Roald
On Jul 22, 4:10 am, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 21/07/09 22:31, Roald wrote:
>
>
>
> > I meant
> > vim | sed 's/foo/bar/'> out.txt
>
> Let's push it one step further. Rather than
>
> someprogram | vim | sed 's/foo/bar' > out.txt
>
> I'd use
>
> someprogram > out.txt
> vim -es -c '%s/foo/bar/g' -cq out.txt
>
> (using Vim in batch mode). Well, I /think/ stat's what that sed command
> does but I know Vim better than sed so I'm not sure. I guess I use Vim
> where most people use sed, because I know how to use it, and like its
> docs better.
>
> See
> :help -e
> :help -s-ex
> :help -c
> :help :s
> :help :saveas
> :help :q
> :help -file
>
> For giving additional commands to Vim, see also
> :help -S
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.
> --
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