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The goal is to use the current line as a TODO and send this to some external program. Something like this:
:! /usr/bin/todo "content of current line"
I know of the filtering command but this implies that I want to edit the current buffer which I do not want (:.! acts as a filter). I know how to get the current file with ‘%’ but isn’t there any way to get some other content ? Maybe by using :execute …
:.!works as a filter, but:.w !(mind the space!) just passes the output. See:help :w_c. I.e.