Re: How to just load a vim file and run the command and print the output to stdout and exit?

On Saturday, June 30, 2012 4:12:46 PM UTC-5, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to run some vim script and print output to stdout and
> exit. The following will print something at the bottom of the screen
> without exiting vim. Is there a way to do want I want? Thanks!
>
> vim -c "source main.vim"
>
> Regards,
> Peng

You can make Vim quit after running the script like this:

vim -c "source main.vim" -c "q"

Or even better:

vim -S main.vim -c "q"

But I don't know of any way to make Vim print arbitrary stuff to stdout.

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