Writing Text to a Buffer
Let’s now expand OpenMPC to display the entire playlist from mpc. For now, we’ll have the function call mpc to get the playlist and then display that in a new split window. Modify the code to look like this:
| plugin.1/mpc/plugin/mpc.vim | |
| Line 1 | function! OpenMPC() |
| - | let cmd = "mpc --format '%position% %artist% / %album% / %title%' playlist" |
| - | let playlist = split(system(cmd), '\n') |
| - | |
| 5 | new |
| - | |
| - | for track in playlist |
| - | if(playlist[0] == track) |
| - | execute "normal! I" . track |
| 10 | else |
| - | call append(line('$'), track) |
| - | endif |
| - | endfor |
| - | endfunction |
And now let’s quickly go over this before we try it out.
On line 3 we define a List, playlist, to store the result of our mpc call. We ...
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