Matt Wozniski wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Any comments on adding the ":unsilent" command modifier? > > It seems like a good idea, if only for the symmetry. Any chance for > another change to how :silent works, though, while we're at it? I'd > find it very useful in my own scripts if > > :silent echomsg "hello" > > could be used to write a message to the :messages log without > displaying it to the screen. I was surprised when I found out that > this didn't work, but of course in retrospect that would have required > that :echomsg have been special-cased in the code. Maybe we could add > a :msgonly modifier that behaves like :silent but does add to the > message history? The message history is to store displayed messages. If a message isn't displayed then it should not be in the history. If you want to log some things to see what your plugin is doing you can use a global List and append to that. -- The real trick is this: to keep the lines as short as possible and keep the size the same yet free from the need for hyphena- Dammit!! (Matthew Winn) /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
