On 2016-12-07, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Hi Gary! > > On Mi, 07 Dez 2016, Gary Johnson wrote: > > > On 2016-09-28, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > > > Let me just withdraw the patch. I use async feature now to workaround. > > > > I recently had a need to save and restore the value of v:shell_error > > and went looking for this discussion. I had forgotten that you > > withdrew the patch. FWIW, here's my workaround. This is from > > a function that is called from a couple of autocommands. > > > > " Save current value of v:shell_error. > > let l:shell_error = v:shell_error > > > > " Dummy example use of system() that also sets v:shell_error. > > let stuff = system("do stuff") > > > > " Restore v:shell_error. > > call system("exit ".l:shell_error) > > Yeah, that workaround was also suggested in the vim-airline issue > tracker. But to be honest it's ugly to overwrite the exit value by > shelling out again.
Agreed. In fact, the actual code in my plugin says this: " Ugly hack to restore value of v:shell_error. " call system("exit ".l:shell_error) However, I'm not aware of a better solution. Regards, Gary -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.