Thank you so much, Yegappan. That's exactly what I needed. On Friday, January 3, 2020 at 7:57:37 PM UTC-6, Yegappan wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 3:12 AM surge <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > The ":ls" command in Vim output the current buffers in Vim. If one of > the buffers is a terminal, there are some useful flags to examine there. > For example, if the command was > > > > :term echo "test" > > > > :ls will contain an entry similar to: > > > > 7 %aF "!echo "test" [finished]" line 1 > > > > Question: is there a vimscript function that could return such extended > information about a buffer? > > > > Yes. You can use the term_getstatus() function to get the status of > the terminal. > You can use the getbufinfo(), term_getjob() and job_info() functions to > get > additional details about the job running in a terminal window. > > Example (assuming the buffer number for the terminal is 2): > :echo term_getjob(2)->job_info() > :echo term_getstatus(2) > :echo term_getjob(2)->job_status() > :echo getbufinfo(2)[0].name > > - Yegappan > > > > > :help terminal suggests that if modifiable option is off, the job had to > have finished. Namely, > > > >> before changes can be made to a terminal buffer, the 'modifiable' > option must be set. This is only possible when the job has finished: > > > > > > So, is examining the modifiable option the best way to determine if a > shell process has finished? What if I wanted to examine the exis status? > > >
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