Using backtick

[jonnieey]

Is it possible to use shell backtick to expand variables eg. vim `which COMMAND

[Aloso]

No. Parameters are expanded by default if they are known variables:

vim os@name
# opens a file called "manjaro"

It should also work for programs:

vim (which COMMAND)

But that is currently broken. I'll open an issue.

[jonnieey]

Okay, thanks.

[jonnieey]

Now it stores variable as expected but still cannot work on them
eg
let x = which mywork
echo x # /path/to/mywork
vim x # doesn't open the /path/to/mywork
vim (x) # doesn't open /path/to/mywork
vim (which mywork) # doesn't work

I pulled from your repo Aloso/dune branch pipe-stdout

[Aloso]

I think the issue is that which adds a line break after the path.

[jonnieey]

Is there a workaround?

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[jonnieey]

I even tried
vim (print (which mywork))

which removes the newline but it doesn't work