Hi all, I can't get ex-command expansion of the '%' token to work with this vim tip: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Display_shell_commands%27_output_on_Vim_window.
I've put the vimscript from the tip into a file named "test.vim" and run vim with vim --noplugin -u test.vim -U NONE test.txt I would now expect ":Shell cat %" to display the text of "test.txt" in a split window. (The tip wiki page implies that this should work). However it does not. I get a split window containing only the text put into the window by the "setline()" call in the linked script. If I remove "silent" from the invocation of :read, I discover that the '%' is passed to the shell without being expanded by vim. If I remove the call to "escape(a:cmdline, '%#')" I get: Error 499: Empty file name for '%' or '#' only works with ":p:h" I *think* this means that vim is expanding '%' in the context of the new scratch buffer instead of the one I was in when issuing the ":Shell" command. The wiki page gives me the impression that others are having success with this, so I'm wondering if their options differ from mine. I've been through the docs for the shell-related options and for :read, but they don't lead to any solutions. Has anyone else gotten this to work? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
