On Friday, January 10, 2014 6:16:31 AM UTC-6, Jacobo de Vera wrote: > On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Rick Dooling <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, January 9, 2014 2:29:41 PM UTC-6, ZyX wrote: > > > > > > > On Jan 9, 2014 11:50 PM, "Rick Dooling" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:26:15 AM UTC-6, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thursday, January 9, 2014 10:42:47 AM UTC-6, Rick Dooling wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear Vim Scripters: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I know how to run external commands and send the output to new files > > > > > and such, but I'm wondering if a Vim scripter can help me do > > > > > something that has to be a common task. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Assume I have a buffer open in Vim called file.markdown > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I want to run my external markdown processor of choice, say pandoc, > > > > > on the contents of that buffer and have it appear in a new tab called > > > > > file.html. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In other words I don't want a filter to replace the markdown. I want > > > > > to run the external command and have the output placed in a new > > > > > appropriately named buffer in a new tab. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > THANK YOU > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I shall investigate execute! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quite an education! Still learning Vim. I mainly just write in it. Very > > > little vim scripting. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > This works inside Vim on the command line > > > > > > > > > > > > > > :execute "!pandoc % -o html" | :tabe %:t:r.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But I could not map it. I would get weird errors about using :p:h. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So I did this instead. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > function! MD() > > > > > > > exe "!pandoc % -o html" > > > > > > > exe ":tabe %:t:r.html" > > > > > > > endfunction > > > > > > You do not need any :exe here in the current state. But you need :exe in > > the first statement: do not ever use % in shell commands as it is not doing > > any escaping. E.g. if name of currently edited file contains space first > > line of function MD will not do its job. > > > > > > > > > > > You should use > > > > > > execute '!pandoc" shellescape(@%, 1) '-o ' shellescape(expand('%:t:r')) > > '.html' > > > > > > instead. This does not apply to vim commands: :tabe %:t:r.html is fine. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "vim_use" group. > > > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > > email to [email protected]. > > > > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > THANK YOU! > > > > I probably would never have noticed the shellescape because I never use > spaces in filenames. But always nice to be ready for cross platform. > > > > I'll leave this here for any other neophyte. > > > > function! MD() > > exe '!pandoc' shellescape(@%, 1) ' -o ' > shellescape(expand('%:t:r')).'.html' > > > :tabe %:t:r.html > > endfunction > > > > > > -- > > -- > > 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 > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > This is a very cool user case, I hadn't even thought of this but it does come > quite handy. > > > I wonder, though, if there would be a way to do this without involving files > at all, that is, passing whatever is in the buffer to pandoc as STDIN and > then getting pandoc's STDOUT into a new buffer, in a split window or a new > tab. > > > > > If I run pandoc as a filter with :%!pandoc ... it will replace the current > buffer contents. > > > Regards, > > -- > Jacobo de Vera > http://www.jacobodevera.com > > > @jovianjake
This one grabs the buffer contents, converts it to HTML, and sends it to the clipboard for pasting into WordPress or whatever. " Send Text Through Filter To Clipboard: " http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_filter_commands_to_process_text function! MDC() :redir @+ " No output file specified so it goes to STDOUT exe '!pandoc %' :redir END endfunction This morning I was monkeying with using Python in Vim to do this. That also works. Then you can use Python's Markdown module. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
