> 'abc' in FILE, from within vi.
* % means 'the current file' in vi commands so you can write
* | is the command separator
* grep has a -c flag to count occurrences
so you can write:
:w|grep -c abc %
you can also write the content of the buffer to a pipe (my prefered
solution here):
:w !grep -c
> Sadly, :E doesn't actually work in vim. It says
> > E464: Ambiguous use of user-defined command
> I don't know what works in vim. vim prolly has a dozen
> chrome-electroplated ways to do the same thing, but I don't know them.
:h windows
also:
:h :new
:h :enew
:h gf
:h :bu
:h :ls
:h :bw
the following code isfrom my ~/.vimrc so i can:
* navigate into buffers with <left> and <right> arrows
* come back to the first buffer with <down>
* have a fzf menu of the current buffers using <up>
set hidden
command! -nargs=0 BU redir! > ~/.v.json | silent echo json_encode(getbufinfo())
| redir END
\| silent exec "!vim_BU ~/.v.json ~/.v"
\|so ~/.v
\|redraw!
nnoremap <up> <esc>:BU<cr>
nnoremap <down> :bfirst!<cr>
nnoremap <left> :bnext!<cr>
nnoremap <right> :bprevious!<cr>
the code of vim_BU (i can probably get grid of perl and use jq instead):
vim_BU () {
perl -MEnv -MJSON -w0 -nE'
map +( printf "%3s %s%s %s\n"
, $$_{bufnr}
, ( $$_{hidden} ? "h" : "a" )
, ( $$_{changed} ? "+" : " " )
, ( length $$_{name} ? $$_{name} : "NONAME" )
), @{ decode_json $_ }
' $1 | fzf | awk '{print "bu "$1}' > $2
}
regards
marc
