Hi, I have commited a couple of patches which should implement this functionality as described in another mail (i.e. without allocating a temporary buffer).
Unfortunately they are only minimaly tested (I should really spend my time on some university related projects). The patches introduce a filter command :! echo Hello World which also supports an interactive mode if no range is given: :!ls -1 *.c | slmenu I hope to eventually use something like this for file name completion etc. The filter command is then used to implement :r some-file which gets translated to :! cat some-file. If a range was suplied it gets replaced by the file content. Similarly :r! and :r ! are an alias for :! Finally :s/search/replace/ is translated to :!sed s/search/replace/ -- Marc André Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
