Re: execute an alias with vim

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 11:25 AM Mathieu Roux <mthrx72@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> I love aliases since i am a child! i am absolutely fascinated by them!
> i dream of them every night :-)
>
> Hmmmm in fact aliases was the best way i found to do what i want. Just
> a ligne in ~/.bashrc, so simple. And just to type "bar" in my terminal
> to access the file.
>
> So, I tried to create one file with shebang (in one directory in my
> $PATH, ~/bin is not my path).
>
> But when i do "c-w n" in vim, and then :!bar, the file is open in
> another vim, not in my window i have just created!

That is because your alias invokes a new instance of Vim.

See :help clientserver to make a new shell talk to an existing instance of Vim.

Best regards,
Tony.

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