Vim: How do I read lines of text into a buffer

JosephS · 05-26-2008, 09:23 PM

I would like to read lines from a text file into a file I am editing in Vim. I can read a file in :r file, but don't know how to read in certain lines from the file.

I have been looking through the internet and at some tutorials, but am not finding out how to do this.

Thanks.

rlhartmann · 05-26-2008, 10:20 PM

Vi will allow you to execute a command and read in the output of the command, you
can use this with sed to read in the lines, in this example, sed will print lines
3,4,5,6, from the sourcefile and add them to your vi buffer.

Quote:

:r! sed --quiet "3,6 p" sourcefile