Thanks, Chris - problem solved!

.D

On Feb 3, 3:17 pm, Charles Campbell <charles.e.campb...@nasa.gov>
wrote:
> Dun Peal wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm running an external program `foo` from vim via `:!foo`. Whenever I
> > do, I see its stdout output scroll by, followed by a "Press ENTER or
> > type command to continue" prompt.
>
> > I'd like to not get that prompt unless the program's exit status is
> > non-zero. Otherwise, it should just signal success and let me keep
> > working. I don't care if the output gets dumped to the vim window,
> > although ideally there would be a way to disable that too.
>
> Some more: the help mentions:
>
> To reduce the number of hit-enter prompts:
> - Set 'cmdheight' to 2 or higher.
> - Add flags to 'shortmess'.
> - Reset 'showcmd' and/or 'ruler'.
>
> (see :help hit-enter)
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell

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