On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 09:22 +0200, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > Steve Hall wrote: > > > Is there a way to avoid the "Press ENTER or type command to > > continue" when requesting spelling suggestions from a :normal z= > > call in a function? > > > > I'm not able to make any of the usual tricks (&shm, raising the > > command height) work, and this statement blocks user input. > > Why not use spellsuggest()?
That seems a lot of overhead to process the list and make a menu/popup, especially given z= usefulness. > It works when you set the maximum number of entries in > 'spellsuggest' to less than the value of 'cmdheight'. I keep cmdheight small so my editing area is large. z= usefully expands it except... > ":silent normal z=" also works. That's probably what you should do > if you want to catch the output with a redirection. I'm not trying to capture anything, but when called in a function the screen refresh happens after the function has already terminated. 1: function! MySpellAlts() 2: let mycmdheight = &cmdheight 3: set cmdheight=13 4: set spellsuggest=10 5: silent normal z= 6: let &cmdheight = mycmdheight 7: endfunction 8: imap <M-F7> <C-o>:call MySpellAlts()<CR> I can find no way to configure line 5 to make this work, I've tried omitting the "silent", using a literal key <C-o>... -- Steve Hall [ digitect mindspring com ]
