Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
> > > > > I have a command with custom completion function that employs the
> > > > > :redir
> > > > > mechanism to determines the matches. This used to work fine in Vim6.3,
> > > > > but is broken in Vim7.0. I don't see any sandbox restrictions that
> > > > > could
> > > > > apply in this case, but even if they do, the command for which I am
> > > > > redirecting the output itself is very simple, it is just an :echo on a
> > > > > simple string, something like this:
> > > > >
> > > > > :Echo delete
> > > > >
> > > > > and the command Echo is defined as
> > > > >
> > > > > :command! -complete=file -nargs=* Echo :echo <q-args>
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this a bug in Vim7 or some change that is not backwards compatible?
> > > > > What would be the change that caused this to break?
> > > >
> > > > You don't give enough information to write a meaningful reply.
> > >
> > > Sorry, I thought my description was complete enough, but anyway, here I
> > > extracted the code that breaks.
> > >
> > > command! -complete=file -nargs=* GUDebugEcho :echo <q-args>
> > > function! UserFileExpand(fileArgs)
> > > return substitute(GetVimCmdOutput('GUDebugEcho ' . a:fileArgs),
> > > '^\_s\+\|\_s\+$', '', 'g')
> > > endfunction
> > >
> > > If UserFileExpand() is called from custom completion function, it no
> > > longer captures any output (this works fine in 6.3), but it works fine
> > > if you call from command line or scripts.
>
> As Eric mentioned, the part that is "broken" is this and see below for
> the example correct/expected and incorrect/unexpected behavior. Please
> let me know if you need further clarification.
Please dig into this a bit more. GetVimCmdOutput() is a long function,
what part of it doesn't work? The ":redir" command is allowed in the
sandbox.Again, set 'verbose' to possibly see an error message. And/or
add some "echomsg" commands to find out what is happening.
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