Question

I have found the :cwindow command to be very useful and I was wondering if I could get similar functionality using the output of my compiled code. I’d the output of :!./a.out to appear in a "quickfix" style buffer.

I’ve also noticed that even after taking the standard steps to prevent the "Press Enter to continue" message, it still happens at least once on :make and :!./a.out – using :silent to suppress this causes my tmux to go completely blank. My current workaround involves a mapping with a lot of carriage returns, is there another way?

Answer 1

I found this:

" Shell ------------------------------------------------------------------- {{{

function! s:ExecuteInShell(command) " {{{
    let command = join(map(split(a:command), 'expand(v:val)'))
    let winnr = bufwinnr('^' . command . '$')
    silent! execute  winnr < 0 ? 'botright vnew ' . fnameescape(command) : winnr . 'wincmd w'
    setlocal buftype=nowrite bufhidden=wipe nobuflisted noswapfile nowrap nonumber
    echo 'Execute ' . command . '...'
    silent! execute 'silent %!'. command
    silent! redraw
    silent! execute 'au BufUnload <buffer> execute bufwinnr(' . bufnr('#') . ') . ''wincmd w'''
    silent! execute 'nnoremap <silent> <buffer> <LocalLeader>r :call <SID>ExecuteInShell(''' . command . ''')<CR>:AnsiEsc<CR>'
    silent! execute 'nnoremap <silent> <buffer> q :q<CR>'
    silent! execute 'AnsiEsc'
    echo 'Shell command ' . command . ' executed.'
endfunction " }}}
command! -complete=shellcmd -nargs=+ Shell call s:ExecuteInShell(<q-args>)
nnoremap <leader>! :Shell

" }}}

in steve losh’s .vimrc – see which I shamelessly copied.