Thanks for the clarification Brett. At least if you have external commands you use regularly though, you could wrap them in a vim function, thereby making them effectively internal, making g< useful.
Just an update - I promised I'd investigate extending my "patch" to help those people who complained about losing their commands if they pressed one too many keys. I tried the most obvious approach, and whilst it sort of worked, there was some unhandled complexity to do with reverting to "more-prompt" mode which I couldn't easily work out. I think it was because vim thought we had alreday exited "more-prompt" mode, when in fact we shouldn't have (so you couldn't scroll back up when you reached the end). Since this g< command works somewhat (or can be made to work by using a wrapper function for external commands), I think I might give up on this and just be satisfied with the simpler "q exits the Press Enter prompt" change. Cheers, John On Wednesday 21 March 2007 23:55, Stahlman Family wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jean-Rene David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <vim@vim.org> > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 9:56 AM > Subject: Re: Consistently exit "message display" with 'q'? > > > >* Bram Moolenaar [2007.03.20 11:45]: > >> > How many times did I repeat a command just because > >> > I had pressed <Space> one time too many... > >> > >> You can type "g<" to go back to the messages. > > > > Thanks! Didn't know about that. > > > > Reading the help, this only brings back the last > > viewed page of messages though. Not quite the same > > thing as bringing up the complete output of the > > last command. > > Also note that it works only for internal commands. The original post gave > both an internal (set) and external (!ls) command in his > example... > > Brett Stahlman > > > > -- > > JR > > > >
