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I like to execute my scripts in the shell using

:! %

But once I do, I can't select the text from the shell in the output. I'm currently using neovim. When I click into the shell to select the text, I exit the shell. How can I get around this?

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    Not sure what the clicking issue is about, but consider using :terminal % instead
    – D. Ben Knoble ♦
    Dec 12, 2022 at 14:29
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    May be use r! % to load the op in buffer, do what you want with it and then press u to undo
    – balki
    Jan 5 at 20:55
  • Does balki's suggestion work for you @pepperdreamteam ?
    – gildux
    Feb 6 at 0:39
  • @gildux not quite
    – pepperdreamteam
    Feb 13 at 22:57

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The % in ! % is a shortcut for the name of your current file, not the contents of the file.

If I name a file ls and open it in vim and run ! % the output of the ls command will be shown.

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  • with all due respect, this information is completely unrelated to the question. there is nothing wrong with the question
    – pepperdreamteam
    Dec 16, 2022 at 16:51
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    I was just clarifying how you used the ! %. There are a couple ways to do this: 1. You can pipe the output of the command through xclip to copy it, and then simply paste it into a new vim buffer. 2. Another solution is to pipe the output of the command to vim with [command] | vim - to do some work there before copying/saving the output och parts of the output. 3. :%![command] to run the current file through the command and view the output in current buffer.
    – Gustav Blomqvist
    Dec 30, 2022 at 13:47
  • These suggestions only work for stdout. Terminal mode seems to be the only way so far
    – pepperdreamteam
    Dec 31, 2022 at 23:05
  • It works for gVim and Vim, Terminal and stand-alone version.
    – Gustav Blomqvist
    Jan 3 at 7:56
  • Yes, not for neovim. This was a Neovim question
    – pepperdreamteam
    Jan 5 at 19:23
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Usually for this kind of stuff I use the vim function read

:read! ls

or

:read! date

It will print the output/results inside the current buffer

If the shell interaction needs a but more interaction, I do things in the shell, pipe to files, and use command line tool xclip for moving around the intersting stuffs from places to places as well inside as oustide vim

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