Re: Messages oddity

Phil Dobbin wrote:

> I was trying to debug something in Vim today & I needed to see the
> fleeting error messages that flash by when Vim spots trouble. However
> when I run :messages all I get is:
> 'Messages Maintainer' followed by a name & email address (which I
> haven't included here because of privacy concerns).
>
> Has anybody seen this behaviour before?
>
> I'm running console Vim from the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories which is Vim
> 7.4 with included patches: 1-1689 & extra patches: 8.0.0056

:messages does not show output from :echo. If you use :echomsg then it
does.

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