Fast way to send current line to the shell in Vim
Say that the current line in Vim contains:
ls /home
(or whatever shell command). Thus, what is a fast way to send this line to the (bash) shell and read the results in Vim? And without using plug-ins.
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asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
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Say that the current line in Vim contains:
ls /home
(or whatever shell command). Thus, what is a fast way to send this line to the (bash) shell and read the results in Vim? And without using plug-ins.
vim shell
asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
antonioantonio
3571930
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Say that the current line in Vim contains:
ls /home
(or whatever shell command). Thus, what is a fast way to send this line to the (bash) shell and read the results in Vim? And without using plug-ins.
vim shell
asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
antonioantonio
3571930
Say that the current line in Vim contains:
ls /home
(or whatever shell command). Thus, what is a fast way to send this line to the (bash) shell and read the results in Vim? And without using plug-ins.
vim shell
vim shell
asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
antonioantonio
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asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
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asked Oct 12 '13 at 14:57
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The easiest way is to put :! at the front of the line (with I:!), then yy to yank the line into the unnamed register, and finally use @" to call the unnamed (") register as a macro. To vim, this is exactly equivalent to typing
:!ls /home
in normal mode. If, like me, you have ; and : switched around in your .vimrc for normal mode, you'll have to insert a semicolon instead.
It's probably possible to alter the register in-place, rather than prepending to an actual line.
It's also possible to do it by y$ yanking to the end of the line (without the above editing), then typing
:!<c-r>"
...(<c-r> meaning Ctrl+r) which will expand to
:!ls /home
(or whatever the command you yanked was). You need to use y$ rather than yy because otherwise it will expand to
:ls /home^M
^M there representing the newline; this is easy enough to delete with a single backspace, though.
This second method might be slightly faster, but anything that involves the Ctrl key seems faintly un-vim-like to me.
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
yyplus:!c-r"Backspaceis 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with^M?
– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
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You can send the current line as a command by simply invoking:
:.!bash -e
The line in the opened buffered will be replaced by the output of that command.
If you'd rather preserve the original line, you can send the output to another buffer with:
:.w !bash -e
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
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The easiest way is to put :! at the front of the line (with I:!), then yy to yank the line into the unnamed register, and finally use @" to call the unnamed (") register as a macro. To vim, this is exactly equivalent to typing
:!ls /home
in normal mode. If, like me, you have ; and : switched around in your .vimrc for normal mode, you'll have to insert a semicolon instead.
It's probably possible to alter the register in-place, rather than prepending to an actual line.
It's also possible to do it by y$ yanking to the end of the line (without the above editing), then typing
:!<c-r>"
...(<c-r> meaning Ctrl+r) which will expand to
:!ls /home
(or whatever the command you yanked was). You need to use y$ rather than yy because otherwise it will expand to
:ls /home^M
^M there representing the newline; this is easy enough to delete with a single backspace, though.
This second method might be slightly faster, but anything that involves the Ctrl key seems faintly un-vim-like to me.
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
yyplus:!c-r"Backspaceis 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with^M?
– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
add a comment |
The easiest way is to put :! at the front of the line (with I:!), then yy to yank the line into the unnamed register, and finally use @" to call the unnamed (") register as a macro. To vim, this is exactly equivalent to typing
:!ls /home
in normal mode. If, like me, you have ; and : switched around in your .vimrc for normal mode, you'll have to insert a semicolon instead.
It's probably possible to alter the register in-place, rather than prepending to an actual line.
It's also possible to do it by y$ yanking to the end of the line (without the above editing), then typing
:!<c-r>"
...(<c-r> meaning Ctrl+r) which will expand to
:!ls /home
(or whatever the command you yanked was). You need to use y$ rather than yy because otherwise it will expand to
:ls /home^M
^M there representing the newline; this is easy enough to delete with a single backspace, though.
This second method might be slightly faster, but anything that involves the Ctrl key seems faintly un-vim-like to me.
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
yyplus:!c-r"Backspaceis 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with^M?
– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
add a comment |
The easiest way is to put :! at the front of the line (with I:!), then yy to yank the line into the unnamed register, and finally use @" to call the unnamed (") register as a macro. To vim, this is exactly equivalent to typing
:!ls /home
in normal mode. If, like me, you have ; and : switched around in your .vimrc for normal mode, you'll have to insert a semicolon instead.
It's probably possible to alter the register in-place, rather than prepending to an actual line.
It's also possible to do it by y$ yanking to the end of the line (without the above editing), then typing
:!<c-r>"
...(<c-r> meaning Ctrl+r) which will expand to
:!ls /home
(or whatever the command you yanked was). You need to use y$ rather than yy because otherwise it will expand to
:ls /home^M
^M there representing the newline; this is easy enough to delete with a single backspace, though.
This second method might be slightly faster, but anything that involves the Ctrl key seems faintly un-vim-like to me.
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
The easiest way is to put :! at the front of the line (with I:!), then yy to yank the line into the unnamed register, and finally use @" to call the unnamed (") register as a macro. To vim, this is exactly equivalent to typing
:!ls /home
in normal mode. If, like me, you have ; and : switched around in your .vimrc for normal mode, you'll have to insert a semicolon instead.
It's probably possible to alter the register in-place, rather than prepending to an actual line.
It's also possible to do it by y$ yanking to the end of the line (without the above editing), then typing
:!<c-r>"
...(<c-r> meaning Ctrl+r) which will expand to
:!ls /home
(or whatever the command you yanked was). You need to use y$ rather than yy because otherwise it will expand to
:ls /home^M
^M there representing the newline; this is easy enough to delete with a single backspace, though.
This second method might be slightly faster, but anything that involves the Ctrl key seems faintly un-vim-like to me.
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
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answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
answered Oct 12 '13 at 15:49
evilsoupevilsoup
8,87714465
8,87714465
yyplus:!c-r"Backspaceis 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with^M?
– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
add a comment |
yyplus:!c-r"Backspaceis 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with^M?
– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
yy plus :!c-r"Backspace is 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with ^M?– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
yy plus :!c-r"Backspace is 6 keystrokes, but probably the faster way. Btw what's the problem with ^M?– antonio
Oct 12 '13 at 16:40
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
I'm not sure why exactly, but leaving it there prevents the command from working...
– evilsoup
Oct 12 '13 at 16:57
add a comment |
You can send the current line as a command by simply invoking:
:.!bash -e
The line in the opened buffered will be replaced by the output of that command.
If you'd rather preserve the original line, you can send the output to another buffer with:
:.w !bash -e
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
1064
add a comment |
You can send the current line as a command by simply invoking:
:.!bash -e
The line in the opened buffered will be replaced by the output of that command.
If you'd rather preserve the original line, you can send the output to another buffer with:
:.w !bash -e
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
1064
add a comment |
You can send the current line as a command by simply invoking:
:.!bash -e
The line in the opened buffered will be replaced by the output of that command.
If you'd rather preserve the original line, you can send the output to another buffer with:
:.w !bash -e
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
1064
You can send the current line as a command by simply invoking:
:.!bash -e
The line in the opened buffered will be replaced by the output of that command.
If you'd rather preserve the original line, you can send the output to another buffer with:
:.w !bash -e
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
1064
answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
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answered Jan 26 at 17:30
shimeshime
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answered Jan 26 at 17:30
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