Send a Command's Output to Vim (Part II) ↪️

In a Hashrocket blog post, 10 Vim Commands for a Better Workflow, I wrote about :.! <command>, which replaces the output of <command> with your current line.

Today I learned what this technique is called: filtering. From the docs:

filter is a program that accepts text at standard input, changes it in some way, and sends it to standard output. You can use the commands below to send some text through a filter, so that it is replaced by the filter output.

An even shorter version is just !!<command> in normal mode. A use case for this would be writing docs, where command-line output (ls, curl, etc.) can help demonstrate an idea.

Check out :help !! to see all the permutations of this interesting command.