Non-destructive Vim piping
You can pipe content through a command in vim without replacing the buffer with the results of that command by using <range>:w !<command>
For example,
:w !cat -
Will cat the whole file.
:.w !cat -
Will cat the current line.
Written by Jesse Dearing
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