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Environment: Linux

I apologize in advance if this question already exists somewhere and has a proper answer. It is just so difficult for me to search because the keywords are all so generic.

Put simply, I want to know a way to do what one might expect this to do:

:edit !which command

This gives the following error:

E172: Only one file name allowed

because the parameters to edit are not being evaluated.

I have tried various incantations with execute, eval, and even norm but I can't make the magic work.

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I think this is what you want to do. I just tested it and it worked for me.

:edit `which command`

Wrap the argument to :edit in backticks rather than preceding it with a "!".

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  • Thanks but that is actually giving me this different error: ``` :e `which my_script.py` E79: Cannot expand wildcards "which my_script.py" [New File] ``` (Sorry, can't figure out how to do block of code in comments)
    – Josh Thies
    Jun 19, 2022 at 16:14
  • please update your answer and remove the backslash and it will be correct: :edit `which command` You have to type: <backtick>:edit <backslash><backtick>which command<backslash><backtick><backtick> in order for it to display in the answer correctly.
    – Josh Thies
    Jun 19, 2022 at 16:25
  • @JoshThies Oh, dear. I hadn't meant to type that backslash. I'm sorry.
    – MDeBusk
    Jun 19, 2022 at 16:27

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