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Asked: 2026-05-20T05:44:52+00:00

The simplified version of my question is how can I achieve a command such

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The simplified version of my question is how can I achieve a command such as the following.

gvim --remote-tab-silent -c mak

When I run this command I am hoping for a new tab to be opened, and to have the make command run. What actually happens however is there are two new tabs “-c” and “mak”

Is there a way to do this? My end goal is to be able to within vim run a command such as this to give me asynchonous make output.

!gvim --remote-tab-silent -c mak

Thanks in advance.

–EDIT–
I found the documentation for –remote, which explains how to do a remote command with opening a file. The syntax applies to remote-tab apparently.

To do what I want I am now using

gvim --remote-tab-silent +mak MakeOutput

Similarly inside vim I can use

!gvim –remote-tab-silent +mak
MakeOutput

It automatically opens the first error in a file for me, which is convenient I would think 🙂

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  1. Editorial Team

    It seems like what you’re asking is how to execute commands asynchronously with updates when they complete.

    Have a look at my AsyncCommand plugin. It’s just wraps the vim syntax required to execute something and load it with –remote. I’ve uploaded AsyncCommand 2.0 that includes an AsyncMake command.

    Add the script to your .vim/plugin and you can build with :AsyncMake or :AsyncMake target. Errors will be opened in your quickfix once the make completes.

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