run external command from within vim

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When I run fc -l -20 in my zsh, I get the expected output.

However when running the same from within vim like so:

:r! fc -l -20 I get error saying: zsh:fc:1: no such event: 0

Why is that, and how to get my previous 20 history list entries into vim?

a3f · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-31 23:29:48Z

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fc is a shell builtin and as such would have to be called from within your shell. Alternatives are fc -l -20 | vim - or maybe <c-Z> fc -l -20 | pbcopy % "*p.

answered Jan 31, 2016 at 23:29

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William Pursell Over a year ago

To clarify for the op, when you call fc from within vim like this vim is spawning a new shell and your invocation of fc is trying to recall the previous 20 commands of this new shell, but there are "no such event(s)"

branquito Over a year ago

But why then, when I spawn new zsh shell instance from say current shell, I still have access to history entries in the parent shell (as they are shared between spawned shells in my zsh setup)?

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