vim 8 support terminal, and has a api to let command in terminal to communicate back to vim.
For example:
In vim, define function like
" .vimrc
let g:cnt = get(g:, 'cnt', 0)
func! Tapi_Command_finish(bufnum, arglist) abort
let g:cnt += 1
endfunc " Tapi_Command_finish
open a terminal buffer, run command
printf '\033]51;["call","Tapi_%s", ["%s"]]\007' Command_finish
then go back to vim, :echo g:cnt, 1 will be echoed, demonstrate function Tapi_Command_finish being called.
This works in linux, but when i tried on windows gvim 8, it did not work.
I search around, some say cmd do not support ansi escape sequence. (not sure if \033]51... is ansi escape sequence or not.)
The question:
Is there a way to use terminal api on windows gvim?
== EDIT == (The echo part)
Below are 3 ways I can thought of to reproduce the echo part.
- 1 cat file approach
under posix shell, eg, cygwin
printf '\033]51;["call","Tapi_%s", ["%s"]]\007' Command_finish > xx
and cp or scp to current directory. then in terminal buffer
type xx
- 2 use python
create file yy.py, with content
print('\033]51;["call","Tapi_%s", ["%s"]]\007' % ("Command_finish",""))
then in terminal buffer, run
python yy.py
- 3 use
echo
not tried, since I don't know how to reliably send '\033'.
Of the 3 ways, both 1 & 2 works on cygwin.