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Feature: %-subsitution in !/:sh

Open vlofgren opened this issue 4 months ago • 0 comments

Currently helix and evil-helix does not substitute % into the current filename when running a command via :sh or !, but vim does. Helix in fact gives a parse error in this scenario, which seems like a bug more than anything else.

Allowing the vim-like behavior would go a long way toward permitting work-arounds for the current lack of plugins, since you could inform a shellscript or similar about where the editor is pointed, and have it act upon that information in some way (e.g. running unit tests in the same directory or whatever).

vlofgren avatar Aug 29 '25 09:08 vlofgren