Hi Graham, What you might want to do is use echom rather than plain echo.
The former sticks it's output into the message buffer and you can then read it with: :mes HTH. On 12 October 2016 at 17:53, Graham Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > I have written a .vim script that does one of a number of possibilites to > the word at the cursor. If this word is alphabetic the script retrieves a > definition for its root word into @m, which it echoes as its last command. > Run under :debug the script does exactly as expected, but run independently > it returns either nothing (apparently), or 3 messages at the foot of the > screen, being > > "file-name" \d\+L, \d\+C > the definition found, or that none was found > Press ENTER or type command to continue > > the last item being in slightly greenish type, and if one does then press > Enter, all 3 messages promptly disappear. So I assume what is happening > when nothing shows is that the script itself, or the system, in some way > presses Enter automatically. > > The behavior is consistent: the word 'styles' always returns the 3 line > display with the definition for 'style'; the word 'peduncles' always > apparently returns nothing, though the definition for 'peduncle' is duly > present in @m. > > I tried starting the script with ':redraw|set lz', but to no effect > > Is there any method that will prevent the screen being redrawn, or, better, > redraw the screen and then do 'echo @m'? > > > -- > Graham Lawrence > > -- > -- > 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 > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Frank -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
