Here's Chris Schaller e-mail in which he proposes to (ab)use Vim's make and quickfix functionality and provides references to two more Vim-related books. Posting from Chris's permission: ---------------------------------------------------- Anton,
Here's yet another vi lover. I am not sure if I understood you correctly regarding processing in vim, but you might want to take a look at :h :make :h 'makeprg' :h 'errorformat' :h quickfix Usually setting makeprg to your groff pipeline and abusing the quickfix (it's main purpose is display- ing error messages from a compiler with neat jump- to-next-error) after a >make should produce the out- put of your commands in a new window. You probably have to tweak things, but it should work... BTW, what really got me hooked to vi was Walter Alan Zintz's UnixWorld tutorial. (found a copy at http://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/vi/009-index.html) and "Learning the vi editor" (Robbins, Lamb), but I never had the chance to get a hand on Clarke's book, though. HTH, Chris
