Friday, September 27, 2019

Re: Quickfix list populated when using :make but not with !cmake

On Fr, 27 Sep 2019, Uday Reddy B wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I notice that the quickfix list and cycling through errors does not work when using ':!cmake ...' but works when using exactly the same command by setting 'let &makeprg="cmake ...' and then ':make'. 
>
> Would there be a way to get the former working as is? Thanks!

No that is not possible. The :! command, always starts an external
command from your shell. Vim does not parse the output (and doesn't even
know what kind of command is started). That's why Vim has introduced the
:make command.

Best,
Christian
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