Re: "Press ENTER or type command to continue" behavior is different between gvim and terminal vim

On 04/07/2012 09:07 AM, Ben Schmidt wrote:
> On 22/03/12 5:37 PM, H Xu wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> For the following vim script in a tmp.vim file:
>>
>> :!echo 1
>> :!echo 2
>>
>> When executing ":so tmp.vim" in a terminal vim (I'm on Konsole of
>> KDE), the output
>> is like this:
>>
>> 1
>>
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>> 2
>>
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>
>> But on gvim:
>>
>> :!echo 1
>> 1
>> :!echo 2
>> 2
>>
>> Press ENTER or type command to continue
>>
>> Note that on terminal vim, there are two "Press ENTER or type command to
>> continue", but on gvim there is only one.
>
> I think this is because in terminal Vim, Vim doesn't know what's
> happening during the commands, so it assumes each command has filled the
> screen and stops for you after each one so you can at least see the tail
> output of each. But in GVim, the output goes through GVim itself, so it
> knows when the screen is full; it can display the more prompt as well as
> the press enter prompt exactly as many times as needed to ensure you see
> all the output.
>
>> Is there any solution to unify the behavior? I'm writing a vim script
>> and this difference could be annoying.
>
> Do you need to see the output? If not, maybe :silent would help? It will
> suppress the prompt altogether. (In my terminal Vim the screen is messed
> up after doing this, though, and I need to issue :redraw to fix it up.)
>
> If you do need the output, maybe you need to use a function that
> captures the output or redirect it to a temporary file and read that,
> and then display it the way you want it, rather than just using :! which
> is simpler but not as flexible.

Thanks. I'll try this.

Hong

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