Re: Is it possible to redirect the output of shell command to QuickFix?

On 7/27/2013 7:27 PM, Dahong Tang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The command :%! ls -al redirects the output of the shell command, in this case ls -al, to the current buffer. But instead of the current buffer, I want to redirect the output of shell command to QuickFix. Does anyone know if this is possible? If so, can you please give an example? Thanks!
>

Browsing :help quickfix and using some other info, the following is
likely to do what you are seeking to do:

:cexpr system('ls -al') | copen

--Suresh

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