Re: how do I determine the status of a process within a terminal tab?

Thank you so much, Yegappan. That's exactly what I needed.

On Friday, January 3, 2020 at 7:57:37 PM UTC-6, Yegappan wrote:

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:12 AM surge <ger...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The ":ls" command in Vim output the current buffers in Vim. If one of the buffers is a terminal, there are some useful flags to examine there. For example, if the command was
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> :term echo "test"
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> :ls will contain an entry similar to:
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>  7 %aF "!echo "test" [finished]" line 1
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> Question: is there a vimscript function that could return such extended information about a buffer?
>

Yes. You can use the term_getstatus() function to get the status of
the terminal.
You can use the getbufinfo(), term_getjob() and job_info() functions to get
additional details about the job running in a terminal window.

Example (assuming the buffer number for the terminal is 2):
     :echo term_getjob(2)->job_info()
     :echo term_getstatus(2)
     :echo term_getjob(2)->job_status()
     :echo getbufinfo(2)[0].name

- Yegappan

>
> :help terminal suggests that if modifiable option is off, the job had to have finished. Namely,
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>> before changes can be made to a terminal buffer, the 'modifiable' option must be set. This is only possible when the job has finished:
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>
> So, is examining the modifiable option the best way to determine if a shell process has finished? What if I wanted to examine the exis status?
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