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ckjbgames

00:35

How would I run a bunch of Vim commands that I have in a file from the Linux command line?

@DJMcMayhem

DJMcMayhem

00:46

@ckjbgames Uhm, tbh I'm not entirely sure. I think you can do vim file -c "normal <keys>" but I'm not positive that always works

You could use V, but there are a couple minor features that would be different

Riker

vim +command runs command

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DJMcMayhem

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