fwd: vim

[Chris Nestrud]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks.

Chris


On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:56:14AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Yea but what if he wants to insert the shell output into the middle of an
> existing file?
> 
> Here is what I just tried in vim.
> Type the following command sequence to insert the current date/time into
> your file:
> :r !dt
> :r reads in a supposed file but !command is substituted for that file name
> and the output of the command will come into the file.  Quite clever, I
> shalle say.:)
> 
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Rodney Clowdus wrote:
> 
> > Let's say we have a file named time and we want to append the output of the
> > command date to the file.  Quit vi in you are in it and type date >> time and
> > the output of date will be appended to the file named time.   If you want to
> > overwrite the file type only one > but to append type two >>.  I find it
> > works pretty good for me.  My two cents worth.
> > Rodney
> > On Monday 20 August 2001 09:43 pm, you wrote:
> > > While we're on the subject of editors.. I've recently started using vim
> > > instead of nano, and I'm very pleased with it. I'm trying to find a way
> > > to be able to enter a shell command and have its output inserted into
> > > the current file. Anyone have any ideas?
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
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