On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gary Johnson wrote: > >> On 2016-02-18, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> > Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote: >> > >> > > $ vim -u NONE -i NONE -N -e -c NonExistCommand -c qall >> > > $ echo $? >> > > 1 >> > > >> > > This command exit with exit code 1. I'm thinking this is reasonable to >> > > return non-zero value into shell, and quit vim properly. But I'm >> > > thinking, when the NonExistCommand was executed with "silent!", this >> > > command should return 0. >> > > >> > > $ vim -u NONE -i NONE -N -e -c "silent! NonExistCommand" -c qall >> > >> > Good idea. >> > >> > I can't find the place in the docs where the exit value is documented... >> >> The only place I can find is ":help :cq". >> >> FWIW, Steve Losh's Splice plugin relies on :qa exiting with a zero >> status and :cq exiting with a non-zero status. I don't think the >> current proposal breaks that, but as usual, we need to be careful >> about changing behavior even if it seems to make sense. > > I believe it's POSIX compatible that any Ex command error results in a > non-zero exit code. Avoiding that with :silent! seems appropriate. > > I'll add a short section in starting.txt about exiting. We can further > ehance that over time.
Note that v:errmsg is filled even with ":silent!". I guess that could be useful, and might be worth mentioning in the starting.txt section. --- Justin M. Keyes -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
