Martin Krischik wrote:
> the following command won't write the result of "&modified" to the
> file "X" but display it inside a pop-up window:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> gvim --nofork --servername 'Eclipse' --remote-expr "&modified" >x
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Am I mistaken or does this does make "--remote-expr" rather useless on
> Windows?
Gvim on MS-Windows is a Windows application, which means there is no
stdout. Vim works around that by presenting the output in a message box.
Try using vim.exe, the console Vim.
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