On 13-Jun-2010 Sergey Khorev <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wrote a plug-in that aims to improve integration between Vim and its > > environment by providing functions to switch to full-screen, open URLs in > > the user's default web browser and execute external commands in the > > background without opening a command prompt window. > > Re execution background processes, what's wrong with :call system("cmd > /c start notepad")? > And URLs could be opened in the same way too: :call system("cmd /c > start http://www.vim.org";)
llor...@neo ~ $ which cmd llor...@neo ~ $ type cmd -bash: type: cmd: not found This seems to answer the question of portability of using cmd ;-) Unless you mean why it is necessary to have a DLL to perform these operations on Windows. -- Cheers, Lech -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" 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
