Christian Brabandt wrote:
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!
Well sort of. :read inserts the whole file after the current line. But
my memory
insists that there is/was a way to select a specified range of records
from the
source file and insert them at a specific place in the current file. For
example:
Insert records 25 through 50 from file source.txt after record 101 of
the
current buffer.
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Rostyk
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