Re: filter output to scratch buffer

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:50 PM, bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I map F5 to search dictionary with
>
> nmap <F5> :!dict <cword> <CR>
>
> The output is quite long and also it may contain some info that I
> would like to copy.  Is it possible to redirect the output to a new
> scratch buffer?

You could do something like the following:

:nmap <F5> :let dictScratch=system('dict ' .
expand('<cword>'))<CR>:new<CR>:0put =dictScratch<CR>:set
buftype=nofile<CR>

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