On Mon, Feb 27, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-02-27, sinbad wrote: > > hi, > > > > here is what i want. i have a function in bash, based on some > > criteria it emits a list of files, i want these list of files to be > > used in vim's quickfix list. how can this be done. i tried like > > this. The bash function is aliased to bashfunc, but the alias > > is not available in vim's system() cmd, so i wrote a bash > > script, which inturn source's the bashrc for the alias, and > > calls the aliased cmd, when i call this script from vim's system() > > it still doesn't work, am i missing something here. > > The bash(1) man page, in the ALIASES section, says: > > Aliases are not expanded when the shell is not interactive, > unless the expand_aliases shell option is set using shopt (see > the description of shopt under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below). > > When executing your script, the shell is not interactive. So > somewhere in your script, you need to put this command: > > shopt -s expand_aliases > > That will solve your alias expansion problem. Whether that is the > best solution to your overall problem, whatever it is, I don't know. > > Regards, > Gary > > -- > 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 >
Hope this helped Sinbad, but even if it didn't it helped me. Thanks Gary -- Nick Hawk [email protected] -- 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
