On 2013-10-28, AlmostSurely wrote:
> On Monday, October 28, 2013 2:06:11 PM UTC-4, AlmostSurely wrote:
> > Consider the following function,
> > 
> > function! Compile()
> >     :cmd_string = "g++ -std=c++11 " . expand("%") . " &> " . expand("%:r") 
> > . ".log"
> >     :execute "silent !" . cmd_string
> > endfunction
> > 
> > The simple goal is to compile with g++, writing any compiler output to a 
> > log file.
> > I'm having trouble passing the " &> " term to the shell. 
> > Suppose % expands to file.cpp, then adding the line,
> > 
> >     :execute "!echo " . cmd_string
> > 
> > Produces:
> > 
> >     g++ -std=c++11 file.cpp 
> > 
> > So the " &> " doesn't even make it to the shell. Any help is much 
> > appreciated.

    :execute "!echo " . cmd_string

evaluates to

    :!echo g++ -std=c++11 file.cpp &> file.log

which echoes "g++ -std=c++11 file.cpp" to file.log.

I verified that result using Vim 7.4.52 started as "vim -N -u NONE
file.cpp" on a system running Fedora 11.

So it works as expected for me.

Regards,
Gary

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