Hi all, I would like to kindly ask for some advice on how to do informational logging in Vim.
When govim (https://github.com/myitcv/govim) starts up, it checks whether it needs to "go install" a new version of the Go part of the plugin, as well as gopls (the LSP server). In order to keep the user informed (because otherwise things would just appear to hang), I echom a message: :echom "Installing govim and gopls" :call feedkeys(" ") " to prevent press ENTER to continue (source: https://github.com/myitcv/govim/blob/c14a323551a641734eaef3c70cee9bd21e862d18/plugin/govim.vim#L298-L299) Notice the "hack" to prevent the "press ENTER to continue" prompt. I did this because it seemed impossible/contradictory to me to use :silent with :echom. I follow a similar approach for sharing the location of two key logfiles (govim is still relatively immature, so referring to these happens more often than is desirable). What's annoying about this approach (beyond the fact that it feels like a hack) is that when I quit vim it leaves a couple of lines of artefacts as output in terminal: $ vi Vim channel logfile: /tmp/vim_channel_log_20190612_1700_11_poZWE0oDJxp3 Press ENTER or type command to continue Does anyone have any pointers/advice on how to do this better? Many thanks, Paul -- -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/CACoUkn60LoQfUZBSTUt9HEstyVJ_Z7qkZNUj3At%3Dxaed%2BSOaBw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
