Re: Vimscript to paste into a file

Hi,

davvs wrote:
>
> Hi I want to find out if there's any way to run a one line shell command to
> do the same as the following:
>
> vim pastefile.txt
> (press keyboard buttons GO"*pwq!)

I guess you meant '0' (Zero) instead of 'O' (upper case oh) and that there
is a colon missing before 'wq!'.

>
> I want someting like this:
> prompt> vim pastefile.txt -inputchars 'GO"*pwdq!"
> prompt>

You can achieve this with

vim -c 'normal G0"*p' -c 'wq!' pastefile.txt

Regards,
Jürgen

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