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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
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Subject: Re: vi problem
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Date: 1 Mar 90 04:13:25 GMT
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In article <1608@bmers58.UUCP>,
	scottp@.bnr.ca (Scott Pace) writes:
)I want to pass the output of the :f command (which displays filename
)and line # among other things) as an argument (or input) to a shell
)script or program. [...]
)The entire purpose of this is so that I can pass down the current line
)number and file name to a script.

I don't think there's a direct way to give the current line number as an
argument to a script. :-(
The file name is `%', of course.
An indirect way to achieve what you want, is the following hack.
Example:

	map	q	:1,.w !(echo %; wc -l) > $HOME/tmp/vi.tmp^M:^A

	map!	^A	!echo `cat $HOME/tmp/vi.tmp`^M

Of course ^X stands for control-X.  Modify the `^A' map to meet your goals.
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