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created 2005 · complexity intermediate · author Bertram Scharpf · version 6.0
When editing a file containing phone numbers, the following can be used to dial the number under the cursor. It uses a shell script (not shown) to make a modem dial the number.
" Return phone number under cursor. " If no number, return an empty string (if argument is zero), " otherwise throw an error to abort script. function! CPhone(check) let s = '[-+./()0-9 ]*' let nr = matchstr(getline('.'), '\s*\zs'.s.'\%'.col('.').'c'.s) let nr = substitute(nr, '\s\+$', '', '') if a:check && empty(nr) throw 'No phone number under cursor.' endif return nr endfunction let @p = ":execute \":!dial '\".CPhone(1).\"'\"\<CR>" augroup LocalUser autocmd BufRead phone* nnoremap <buffer> <CR> :execute ":!dial '".CPhone(1)."'"<CR> augroup END
After sourcing the above script:
- In any file, put the cursor on a phone number and type
@p
to dial the number. - In any file with a name starting with "
phone
", put the cursor on a phone number and press Enter to dial the number.
The shell script dial
(not shown) uses its argument to write modem control sequences to /dev/ttysS0
to cause the modem to dial the phone number. The script removes all non-digit characters from the number, then does something like this shell command:
echo -ne 'atdt,<number>;h0\r' >/dev/ttyS0
Comments[]
Not many people will have a modem (or the required dial
script) to try this tip, but there are some useful ideas that might be useful for other applications. JohnBeckett 10:54, May 11, 2012 (UTC)