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Commands executed from vim are not recognizing bash command aliases
Why doesn't my vim know my alias?
say I set
alias kapow='grep'
in my .bashrc, which I source after.
I open vim, type
:!kapow "dude"
but vim tries to run /bin/bash kapow, when I actually wanted it to run my alias.
How does one run commands from a bashrc inside of vim (without leaving to the :shell)?
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Just press the Ctrl and P keys together to fill the prompt with the last executed command and you are ready to go. This method works in bash perfectly even after closing the terminal, but it might not work in zsh after closing the session.
The bash shell (again, via GNU Readline) is able to provide this functionality for us. In order to enable it, you run the command $ set -o vi.
You can search command from the history by pressing Ctrl+R. When these keys are pressed then a search option will appear. The command will search from the history based on the keypress by the user.
The vim manual says this about :!
On Unix the command normally runs in a non-interactive shell. If you want an interactive shell to be used (to use aliases) set 'shellcmdflag' to "-ic".
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