Re: Issue with using gvim system() and fzy

On Saturday, January 7, 2017 at 1:20:14 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2017-01-07, Justin M. Keyes wrote:
>
> > On Jan 6, 2017 17:09, "justrajdeep" wrote:
>
> >> Having an issue while doing a system() call with fzy(https://github.com/
> >> Dkendal/fzy-vim)from inside gvim
> >>
> >> Code snippet
> >>
> >>   silent let output = system("ag -l -g '' --nocolor | fzy")
> >>
> >>   Decho(1)
> >>   Decho (output)
> >>   Decho(2)
> >>   Decho(3)
> >>
> >>
> >> The output is
> >>
> >>     1
> >>     Failed to open /dev/tty^J
> >>     2
> >>     3
> >>
> >>
> >> If i remove fzy from the command the result is fine. Can someone please
> >> help me debugging the issue?
>
> > Most likely, fzy wants to write to a tty, not a file.
>
> Looking at the web page https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy, it's
> pretty clear that fzy writes directly to a terminal, separately from
> its stdout, which vim running in a termina provides, but which gvim
> doesn't.
>
> Regards,
> Gary


Thanks Gary,

Can you please point me to the details of this in vim help or somewhere? Sorry I am new to vim programming and would like to understand the difference and try to see if I can somehow get it working.

- Rajdeep

--
--
You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.