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From: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: including filename with vi
Message-ID: <1990Nov03.192204.3860@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 90 19:22:04 GMT
References: <484@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.MCS.COM (David W. Tamkin)
Organization: Contributor Account at ddsw1, Wheeling, Illinois
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fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) wrote in <484@ssc.UUCP>:

| A friend just asked how to include the name of the current file
| in vi.  In other words, he wants the current file pathname inserted
| into the text for reference purposes.  I couldn't think of how to do it.
| I wrote the shell script below as a nasty hack to solve the problem but
| it seems there must be a vi'ish way to do it.

:r !echo %

In shell escapes, vi replaces unquoted percent signs with the current file
name.

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