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

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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