Phil Dobbin wrote: > I was trying to debug something in Vim today & I needed to see the > fleeting error messages that flash by when Vim spots trouble. However > when I run :messages all I get is: > 'Messages Maintainer' followed by a name & email address (which I > haven't included here because of privacy concerns). > > Has anybody seen this behaviour before? > > I'm running console Vim from the Ubuntu 16.04 repositories which is Vim > 7.4 with included patches: 1-1689 & extra patches: 8.0.0056
:messages does not show output from :echo. If you use :echomsg then it does. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? /// Bram Moolenaar -- [email protected] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- 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.
