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Jing
Jing

Reputation: 700

How can I execute a Vim command followed by external commands execution?

The command looks like this

autocmd! BufWritePost <buffer> mark s | $r ! ruby % | sed 's/^/\#=> /' | 's

It will append the output and move cursor to the original position, before appending.

This is the error I got:

Error detected while processing BufWritePost Auto commands for "<buffer=1>":
E485: Can't read file /var/folders/fw/045tt2q10zv1qkbfbw73y8c80000gn/T/vCDqw9b/7

If remove | 's at the end of line, it works fine, but no returning to the marked s position.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 413

Answers (1)

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172738

There are two problems:

  1. The :read ! ... command cannot be concatenated with other Vim commands; it treats all following text as the command to execute. This causes the shell error. See :help :bar. You can fix this by wrapping with :execute.
  2. 's is a normal mode command; to use it in a command-line, you need to prefix the :normal Ex command.
autocmd! BufWritePost <buffer> mark s | execute "$r ! ruby % | sed 's/^/\#=> /' " | normal! 's

Upvotes: 3

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