On Jun 20, 10:53 am, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there > is actually some way to accomplish getting the stdout output of a > program without opening a cmd window, I'd sure like to know it!
I suppose I should also explain what I'm trying to accomplish, in case there's a better solution, although I'd also like an answer to the general question. I'm trying to determine the encoding used by the cmd.exe shell, and use that encoding by default for DOS .bat files. On all the systems I use day-to-day, this turns out to be cp437. I know I can use the "chcp" command in a cmd.exe shell to output the current encoding, so prior to patch 203, I had a system() command which grabs the output of this command in my .vimrc. However, as a side effect, every time I launch Vim with this call in the .vimrc, a cmd.exe window flashes. I'd much rather use no extra window at all, so as an easy workaround I used !start /b with command redirection to a temporary file and Vim's client-server functions to read in the output without opening a shell window. But then I ran into the problem detailed in my original post: !start / b does not allow redirection to a file. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
