Download file from vim

There are more such command line tools. Terminal based web-browsers like elinks , w3m etc can also be used for downloading files in command line. Personally, for a simple download, I prefer using wget over curl. It is simpler and less confusing because you may have a difficult time figuring out why curl could not download a file in the expected format.

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One of my absolute favorite features is that Aria2 can also be used to both download and upload Torrents as a peer and seeder! It can do this by first downloading the. I primarily use Debian and Arch, so those are the only two I have memorized.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How do I script Vim to download a thesaurus file and save it? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 1 month ago.

Active 5 years, 1 month ago. Viewed times. So I've tried this: command! Improve this question. Sukima Sukima 1, 6 6 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. Why would you use a text editor to download a file? Yes, we have perfectly good tools for this: curl and wget. So if I if execute 'curl' and if execute 'wget' are I not re-inventing the same thing the netrw plugin is doing.

Why can I not use the netrw plugin functions to do this without having to build my own conditional statement? Does the netrw plugin not already have better fallback defaults? The aversion to reuse bundled code confuses me.

Sukima you would use the Nread command from the netrw plugin. Have a look at my unicode plugin — Christian Brabandt. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. As romainl and Ian Emnace said in the comments you shouldn't do that with Vim. Vim can be extended with plugins.

Many plugins have been written to improve file management in vim. The first plugin is vim-vinegar by tpope. Vim-vinegar is meant to improve the defaults of netrw and add a few shortcuts.

Useful help commands for this section :help netrw and :help vinegar. NERDTree is a file system explorer for vim that allows you to see your file structure in a tree like syntax. The plugin includes many more features and configuration options. CtrlP is built purely in vimscript and fzf uses the external binary fzf written in Go. Once open typing the name of the file will filter the list down.

Useful help commands for this section :help CtrlP or :help fzf. Vim is powerful and also extendable so there are many great tools for opening and managing files or buffers. No one tool is the best and nothing is stopping you from using multiple tools I have both NERDTree and fzf installed on my system. Install a few and try them out for yourself, you might find you only need netrw or the shiny tree stuff in NERDTree is your game.

Either way now you know how to open buffers in vim! Vanilla Vim Vim itself includes many helpful tools for opening files what kind of text editor would it be without this.