Re: Mapping erases search count message

Christian wrote:

> On Do, 29 Aug 2019, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > The <silent> argument means that the command won't be echoed. But it
> > does not suppress the output of the command like the ":silent" modifier
> > does.
>
> Yeah, but it felt natural to me, to only show the search index feature,
> if the command is echoed. I actually played with a simple patch
> yesterday, but then thought that <silent> works as expected.
>
> > How about removing the check for cmd_silent in search.c, where
> > search_stat() is called?
>
> It's a bit more convoluted, since msgbuf needs to be properly allocated
> and initialized.
>
> The attached patch does it. Let me know if you think that is okay. I can
> write a test then.

Thanks. Yes, I think we should do this. But the allocation should
probably be done differently, it looks like with cmd_silent set it still
computes the size of the command. This will require some more "if"
statements, but makes the size computation more accurate.

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