Re: How can the cmd window be hidden?

On Friday, May 11, 2012 2:02:24 AM UTC-5, zhang listar wrote:
> Hi, all.
> I am using gnu global with gvim on windows 7.
> It woks fine and but a small problem bothes me.
>
> I write the following code in vimrc:
>
> au BufWritePost *.[ch],*.cpp call UpdateGtags(expand('<afile>'))
> function! UpdateGtags(f)
> let dir = fnamemodify(a:f, ':p:h')
> exe 'silent !cd ' . dir . ' && global -u &> /dev/null &'
> endfunction
>
> But when I try to save content to gvim, a black window of cmd blinks,
> and disappears.
> I know it's vim calls it.
>
> I want to let the cmd window run in the background. How can I do it?
>

You can use !start /min or !start /b to run an asynchronous task minimized or with no window, respectively. If you do this, you may want to call back into Vim with the client-server function to let Vim know you're done. See:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Execute_external_programs_asynchronously_under_Windows

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