Unsure if this is a bug or what.
Do this in a new console vim instance (console version of MacVim will
show it too, though I am NOT reporting a MacVim problem to the wrong
list):
:redir => foo
:!ls -l
:redir END
:echo foo
What I expect is to see the usual "ls" listing of the current dir
contents.
What I see is not that, but this:
:!ls -l^M
In other words, the output of "ls -l" is not being redirected into the
variable foo. Instead the variable foo is getting only the !-command.
The same goes for redirecting into files and registers.
Here's what's weird. It works as "expected" in MacVim's GUI. (This
might be why I came to expect it, but I could've sworn it used to work
like this in console vim too). Perhaps it only works in MacVim by
fluke? Perhaps I should not have been expecting what I expected?
Anyway, as a point of comparison, the following works in all Vims the way
I expect it to:
:let foo = system("ls -l")
:echo foo
-Manny
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