On 09/10/12 02:31, William Robertson wrote:
> On Monday, September 10, 2012 2:45:48 AM UTC+1, Tim Chase wrote:
>>> !cal
>>> How can I get it placed in the current document?
>>
>>   :r! cal
> 
> Interesting - I've always used "!!" (possibly that's from classic vi), as in
> 
> !!cal
> 
> which I see Vim translates into
> 
> :.!cal

The main problem with that is it replaces the current line's
contents with the output of cal.

  bash$ seq 20 | vi -
  5G           " go to line 5
  !!cal        " read in the calendar

Notice that the line containing "5" is now missing from your document.

-tim


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