Re: how trigger vim to open a conversion result?

On Fr, 25 Nov 2022, meine wrote:
> Sometimes I get text files with a format that is not directly human
> readable, e.g. an MS Word file. Does anyone know how to open a
> conversion-result directly in vim?
>
> I use pandoc to convert between formats. The string I use just to read a
> Word file is
>
> $ pandoc -f docx -t rst [file]filename[/filename] | less
>
> Pandoc converts the docx-file to a ReStructuredText file that can be
> read in a pager.
>
> But how do I trigger vim to open the result (instead of less)?
>
> TIA
>
> //meine
>

Hi,
check out the various BufReadCmd autocommands. As an example, you may
want to check the zipPlugin, that is distributed with vim and allows to
browse the content of zip packages:
https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
and
https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/autoload/zip.vim

Best,
Chris

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