Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2016-02-18, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > Yasuhiro Matsumoto wrote:
> >
> > > $ vim -u NONE -i NONE -N -e -c NonExistCommand -c qall
> > > $ echo $?
> > > 1
> > >
> > > This command exit with exit code 1. I'm thinking this is reasonable to
> > > return non-zero value into shell, and quit vim properly. But I'm
> > > thinking, when the NonExistCommand was executed with "silent!", this
> > > command should return 0.
> > >
> > > $ vim -u NONE -i NONE -N -e -c "silent! NonExistCommand" -c qall
> >
> > Good idea.
> >
> > I can't find the place in the docs where the exit value is documented...
>
> The only place I can find is ":help :cq".
>
> FWIW, Steve Losh's Splice plugin relies on :qa exiting with a zero
> status and :cq exiting with a non-zero status. I don't think the
> current proposal breaks that, but as usual, we need to be careful
> about changing behavior even if it seems to make sense.
I believe it's POSIX compatible that any Ex command error results in a
non-zero exit code. Avoiding that with :silent! seems appropriate.
I'll add a short section in starting.txt about exiting. We can further
ehance that over time.
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