Multiple commands on same line

Question

I've been trying to find something that will let me run multiple commands on the same line in Vim, akin to using semicolons to separate commands in *nix systems or & in Windows. Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

A bar | will allow you to do this. From :help :bar

'|' can be used to separate commands, so you can give multiple commands in one line. If you want to use '|' in an argument, precede it with '\'.

Example:

:echo "hello" | echo "goodbye"

Output:

hello
goodbye

NB: You may find that your ~/.vimrc doesn't support mapping |, or \|. In these cases, try using <bar> instead.