[xarcolade]

Insightful! I have had the same issue with forgetting where exactly I need the cursor. I did not know you could run script/commands on text selection, I will definitely look into this. The extent of my vimscript journey so far is directly making system() calls to external scripts, and I've been using the ability to Ctrl-R while entering a :command to dump yanked text as a crutch. Your approach sounds much more sensible.

[vanous]

Glad you find it useful. Below is an example script to demonstrate the concept. It is awesomely powerful. In vim, select some text and do this:

  :'<,'>! ./example.py

  #!/bin/env python3
  #:'<,'>! ./example.py # ← this is how to use it
  import sys
  data = sys.stdin.readlines()
  for l in data:
    l = l.replace("a", "e").rstrip()
    print(l)