Re: [vile] Can one ^X! direct into text being edited somehow?

[Paul Fox]

chris wrote:
 > On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:36:45AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
 > >  > OK, same problem with my ":r ...." solution as well of course.
 > >  > 
 > >  > So, I want to create a command which will get the date without any new
 > >  > lines, it seems the way to do this will be to create a store-procedure
 > > 
 > > i just realized i have that in my .vilerc -- just have never really used
 > > it.  you can see that it cheats, with regard to the newline thing:  (the
 > > "day" command prints a formatted date.)
 > > 
 > >     store-procedure insert-day
 > >        insert-string "\n\n"
 > >        previous-line
 > >        filter-til goto-eol "day"
 > >        previous-line
 > >        join-lines
 > >        join-lines
 > >     ~endm
 > >     bind-key insert-day M-d
 > > 
 > Does that 'filter-til goto-eol "day"' actually insert the text sent to
 > stdout by the "day" command or am I misunderstanding what's going on.

i think it's the macro language equivalent of "!$day", so yes.

paul

 > 
 > 
 > >  > which gets the date in the format I want and then to call this with a
 > >  > map! key.
 > >  > 
 > >  > The only bit I can't see how to do is to get the output of a command
 > >  > into a string in the store-procedure.  How does one do the equivalent of
 > >  > a shell sequence like "dt=`date +%Y-%m-%d` in a store-procedure?
 > > 
 > > i thought there was a way, but i'm not finding it.
 > > 
 > > i know you're asking a more general question, but there's also the
 > > the &date function:
 > >    | &date       | 2    | format 2nd param with 1st, like strftime.        
 > > |
 > > 
 > Yes, I'd found that and it would satisfy some of what I want.  However I
 > also want to be able to pop up a calendar widget and select a date to
 > insert from that.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Chris Green
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