I’m trying to setup vim on windows to work like it does in Linux. Basically, when I type “:make” in linux, I get the output of makeprg sort of streaming through vim itself.
On windows I get a cmd prompt that comes up, but behind vim. I have to switch focus to view the results until they are finished and then they can be viewed in the quickfix window.
I attempted to download a copy of “tee” and set shellpipe to |tee, but that didn’t really change anything. Below are the sort of relevant settings in my vimrc, I use ninja, but the same happens if I switch to nmake or something similar.
set makeprg=ninja\ -C\ build-ninja
set shellpipe=2>&1\ \|tee
set efm+=%Dninja:\ Entering\ directory\ `%f',%Xninja:\ leaving\ directory
I think this is related to what you want, but provides only for a partial solution, because it will not wait until the program has finished running:
Getting it to work will not be trivial (see comments), it seems like an important oversight of the Windows version of Vim, because start cannot be executed from makeprg (see comments), only the internal (and more limited !start).
The full documentation of the start program (which it seems you would need to somehow invoke) you can find in this question