From: Tim Pease <tim.pease@...>
Date: 2006-08-22T00:21:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Vim Question

On 8/20/06, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov <ara.t.howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> here i type
>
>    :r !echo arg1 arg2
>
> which says
>
>    read in the output of 'echo arg1 arg2'
>
> yielding
>
>    arg1 arg2
>
> into my file.  if you don't want output you can do things like
>

Okay, the solution I came up with is to build up the command inside
one of the paste registers (@) and then execute that register.  Here
is a simple example that will move to the current working directory
and do a file listing.

function FuncGetls( )
  let @g="!cd " . getcwd() . "; ls"
  @g
endfunction
command Getls call FuncGetls( )

My full solution for doing the rsync is this ...

command -nargs=1 Put call <SID>Put("<args>")
function <SID>Put(puter)
  let s:dir=escape(getcwd(), "\"") . "/"
  let @r="!rsync -v -rulptzCF " . s:dir . " " . a:puter . ":" . s:dir
  @r
endfunction

Now I can send all the files I've modified to another computer by
typing the following command ...

:Put panic

where panic is the name of the machine.

TwP