can async task work with visual selection?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
vim
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the macro section and the existing VIM_CWORD handling to understand how async tasks receive Vim context. Determine how a visual selection could be passed to a task for website searches or scripts. Done means the supported invocation and selection-passing behavior are clearly defined and usable.

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Description

I checked out the macro section and don't see anything specifying visual selection, is there anyway to invoke a task and pass the current visual selection to it? for example, to search it on some website or invoke some script with it. VIM_CWORD is the closest I can find, but it's much less flexible than visual selection. async task seems heavily file oriented, I think it can be more useful by working with other vim elements, such as visual selection. thanks.

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