Comments on How to access shell or run external commands from within Vim

Vim, as you might already know, is a feature-packed and powerful editor. In this tutorial, we will focus on how you can execute external commands as well as access the command line shell from within the editor window.

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By: djf
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 Thanks. To the point and the security warning of dropping to a shell is very important.

By: Ross Brunson
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Hi there, great article, I finally figured out how to add the output of lines ABOVE the current line, as if you had used an "O" to open a line:

:-1 read ~/block.vim

This will read in the contents of block.vim and insert that content above the current line (.) because -1 means this line less one.