On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Bob Hiestand <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: >> I map F5 to search dictionary with >> >> nmap <F5> :!dict <cword> <CR> >> >> The output is quite long and also it may contain some info that I >> would like to copy. Is it possible to redirect the output to a new >> scratch buffer? > > You could do something like the following: > > :nmap <F5> :let dictScratch=system('dict ' . > expand('<cword>'))<CR>:new<CR>:0put =dictScratch<CR>:set > buftype=nofile<CR>
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