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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
