Re: vim: use external program, but direct output to a new vsplitted buffer

this is nice. thanks!

regards
ping

On 06/28/2012 01:44 PM, Charles Campbell wrote:
> ping wrote:
>> experts:
>> this may be easy for experts but I'm still in beginners level...
>>
>> a common usage of the external program is to process texts in curr
>> buffer and put it back(to replace) the texts like a pipeline - which
>> is great in most circumstances.
>>
>> but sometime I don't want to modify my text but rather redirect the
>> output to another buffer -- pretty much like what TOhtml does.
>>
>> particularly I want to visual select a range of text and call the
>> ext-prog, then got the result in a new splitted buffer.
>>
>> eg. I want to visual select texts and then:
>>
>> :'<,'>!asciidoc -a toc -a toclevels=3 -
>>
>> to convert the texts into html on stdout.
>>
>> how to achieve that?
>>
> Perhaps RunView will be of help, although I don't have asciidoc
> available to test the specific case.
>
> RunView: http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#RUNVIEW
>
>
> let g:runview_filtcmd= "asciidoc -a toc -a toclevels=3 -"
>
> Then
>
> :[range]RunView
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
>

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