08/01/11 21:31:05 ¶ ●

Vim tips: Working with external commands

Some really neat Vim tips like this one, which runs ls on a directory and outputs everything right into your current buffer:

:r ! ls -1 /home/user/directory

With :r you can pretty much insert everything that your command line spits out into Vim, and obviously you can also pipe the entire document, ranges of text to a command line utility.