how trigger vim to open a conversion result?

[meine]

Hi,

Sometimes I get text files with a format that is not directly human
readable, e.g. an MS Word file. Does anyone know how to open a
conversion-result directly in vim?

I use pandoc to convert between formats. The string I use just to read a
Word file is

$ pandoc -f docx -t rst [file]filename[/filename] | less

Pandoc converts the docx-file to a ReStructuredText file that can be
read in a pager.

But how do I trigger vim to open the result (instead of less)?

TIA

//meine

[Enan Ajmain]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 17:37:26 +0100
meine <tria...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I use pandoc to convert between formats. The string I use just to
> read a Word file is
>
> $ pandoc -f docx -t rst [file]filename[/filename] | less
>

> But how do I trigger vim to open the result (instead of less)?

You can open vim with the output from stdout:

$ echo 'hello world' | vim -


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[Christian Brabandt]

Hi,
check out the various BufReadCmd autocommands. As an example, you may
want to check the zipPlugin, that is distributed with vim and allows to
browse the content of zip packages:
https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/plugin/zipPlugin.vim
and
https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/autoload/zip.vim

Best,
Chris