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
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