On Fri, February 18, 2011 5:19 am, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: > From the dim recesses of my failing memory, I seem to recall, that > there are > some vim commands that let one read in, include, a range of records from > an external source to a specified location in the current buffer. > Something on the order of > :(range) read from (to_address) > Can some vim guru point me to the proper way? > It seems messy to have to open the from source in a second buffer, > then yank the desired record range, and finally put the yanked > records at the to_address. > > Advance thanks
Are you looking for the :r command? You can input either another file or even read in the ouput of another command. See :h :read :h :read! regards, Christian -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
