Re: capture output of a vim command into a quickfix windows without freezing vim

On Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:59:30 PM UTC-5, Gary Johnson wrote:
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> I looked at ":help remote.txt" but didn't see anything there that
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> would do what you want, but I don't use the client-server
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> functionality so I could easily be wrong about that.
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Not directly, but you can call arbitrary Vim functions with --remote-expr

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> The easiest "solution" is to run your make command in a different
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> Vim instance.
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> Another approach is to run make in the background and send its
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> output to file. Then, when that make is done, you can use :cfile
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> command to open that file in a quickfix window.
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Yes, I'd suggest this approach. But you don't need to do the :cfile manually.

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Execute_external_programs_asynchronously_under_Windows gives a method on Windows for async grep commands. The idea would be the same for "make" commands.

You shell out to start a command in a background process that will do the compile, AND when that compile is done will use --remote-expr to tell Vim to load a file with :cfile.

There are also some plugins out there to simplify the task I think.

Note, the quickfix window will not update dynamically as the compile happens. But it will allow you to keep using Vim while it is going on.

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