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Re your edit: they explain it pastes the output of the command directly into your buffer, rather than temporarily showing you a shell with the output.

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You can just do `:r !ls` to do that. Using <C-R>=system('ls') is way overkill.

That said I do agree that the expression register is amazing.

Oh, I missed that! Thanks for pointing that out :)

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