Ben Fritz wrote: > I know I can use the "chcp" command in a cmd.exe shell to > output the current encoding, so prior to patch 203, I had a > system() command which grabs the output of this command in my > .vimrc. However, as a side effect, every time I launch Vim > with this call in the .vimrc, a cmd.exe window flashes.
This works on my Windows system (with no extra window): :let output=system('chcp') :echo matchstr(output, '\d\+') I guess it works because chcp is an external program. John -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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