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18 lines
407 B
Markdown
# Vim backtick expansion
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```
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:h backtick-expansion
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```
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Essentially allows command substitution with shell or vim commands. Requires a
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lot of escaping special symbols though
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```bash
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:e `mktemp`
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:e `=tempname()`
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```
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Edit a new temporary file. Very useful in gui contexts when you just quickly
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need to jot something down. The equal sign in the second line expands a vim
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function instead of calling a shell
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