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

[Brendan O'Dea]

On 6 September 2012 22:58, Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 08:07:59AM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
>> it requires opening a new line before doing so, but i use
>>     !!date
>> for this sort of thing.  !-filtering is line oriented, so you can't
>> do less than a line that way.
>>
> OK, same problem with my ":r ...." solution as well of course.

You can always just join the result to the next line when you're done.

    map! #2  ^M^[!!date^M-Ji

Depending on what you're trying to achieve, you may need to move/join
differently.