Christian Brabandt wrote:
> > > On Do, 07 Jul 2016, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Patch 7.4.1996
> > > > Problem: Capturing the output of a command takes a few commands.
> > > > Solution: Add evalcmd().
> > > > Files: src/eval.c, runtime/doc/eval.txt, src/testdir/test_alot.vim,
> > > > src/Makefile, src/testdir/test_evalcmd.vim
> > >
> > > Does that work recursively? e.g. what happens, if you do
> > > :echo evalcmd(':redir =>a|syn|redir end')
> >
> > Nope. The help for :redir says:
> >
> > Only one ":redir" can be active at a time.
>
> Sorry, but in that case, I don't see how the evalcmd() is helping much.
> I would have rather seen a fixed :redir command. Perhaps make use of
> Neovims capture() function?
> https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4697
Hmm, wasn't aware that people wanted nested redirection.
It's not so difficult to make that work, use another redir flag instead
of reusing redir_vname.
The neovim implementation is similar, but not better.
It skips adding spaces where needed.
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