Re: Follow external command output

On Jan 10, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Andrew O'Neill <phasmid1@gmail.com> wrote:

> If I understand what you are asking, you can do this with
>
> :!external --command
>
> This will run "external --command" within the shell and when the command is finished, you can press enter to return to vim. Type ':help !' in vim for more information.

Thanks, but ! doesn't quite work for this purpose; I want to stay within Vim and just have output show up where I get other messages (in Vim), whereas ! suspends Vim until the command has finished. (I have used <c-z> to get at the shell from Vim and then return to it, but I wanted something which doesn't require me to do that.)

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