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On 15:26 Fri 21 Sep , Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2012-09-21, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> > On 13:54 Fri 21 Sep , Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > On 2012-09-21, Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> > > > On 19:33 Fri 21 Sep , Marc Weber wrote:
> > > > > Excerpts from Marcin Szamotulski's message of Fri Sep 21 19:21:23
> > > > > +0200 2012:
> > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I just have found a neat way for doing:
> > > > > > :echo system('command')
> > > > >
> > > > > why is echo system('command') better than :! ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Using :! you can stop it using ctrl-c again.
> > > > > The only advantage I could see is that % is not treated specially.
> > > > > Ah, its about completion ?
> > > > Yes it is! and how less you need to type, and how nice it looks ;)
> > >
> > > This must be for shells that don't have command completion? From
> > > both vim and gvim on my Linux system, command completion from :!
> > > works fine.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Gary
> >
> > The problem is that there is no completion on the vim command line when
> > you type:
> > :echo system("....
>
> I don't understand why anyone would want to use ":echo system('..."
> instead of ":!...".
>
> Regards,
> Gary
In terminal vim "!..." jumps back and forth to the terminal. I prefer to
stay inside vim. One of the reasons is quite trivial: I use different
background color in vim (a dark one) and terminal (rather light). And
there is a small delay time when eyes adjust to another contrast.
Best,
Marcin
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