On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Adam Medveczky /android/ wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> My question is a simple one, altough i could not find it by googleing,
> and searching this group :(
>
> Let's say I have executed something like
> :!foo
> I then hit something, did some editing, and i would like to see the
> output again (without running the command again).
>
> I don't want to " :read! foo ", as I probably don't even know i want
> that output later, I just happen to forgot what was that exactly, and
> want to have a quick look at it.
>
> Can anybody please help?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Adam

If you're using terminal vim, you can just background the process with
<C-Z> to see it.  I don't know of any way to do the same thing when
running gvim, though, other than that if you know in advance that
you'll need it later you can always just pop it up in a temporary
window, a la

:!xterm -e 'foo | less' &

~Matt

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