On 04/09/2011 12:11 PM, Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
How can you insert the output of an Ex command into the buffer
at the place where the cursor is ? Say for example in the 1st
line here I want to insert right after "you" the output of
:chdir .So I place the cursor after "you" and then do what ?
A couple options occur:
1) use :redir to a register and paste the register contents:
:redir @a
:chdir
:redir END
"ap
2) use the system() call in an expression-register to perform the
command in your OS's command-interpreter:
In insert mode in *nix:
^R=system('pwd')
In insert mode in Win32:
^R=system('cd')
In normal mode in *nix:
"=system('pwd')<cr>p
In normal mode in Win32:
"=system('cd')<cr>p
where "^R" is control+R and "<cr>" is hitting <enter>.
For more info, you can read up at
:help :redir
:help i_CTRL-R
:help @=
As a caveat, most of those end up being line-wise and have odd
behaviors if your pulled-contents have a trailing newline (which
is most of the time).
-tim
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