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vim: disable "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt?

Answer 1

+4 A:

I'm not sure how to do it globally though for one command:

:silent!<command>

Wergan 2009-05-20 23:55:20

Unfortunately not very helpful for me, it messes up the screen and I have to press Ctrl-L... which is even more annoying than pressing space.

kotlinski 2009-05-20 23:59:05

Worked for my grep script though!

Mikko Rantanen 2009-07-23 19:58:45

Answer 2

+4 A:

:help hit-enter

anthony 2009-05-20 23:57:49

I'm curious as to why someone voted this answer down, since `:help hit-enter` provides some fairly useful background information on "Press ENTER..." prompt. Care to explain?

Curt Sampson 2009-05-21 01:55:14

What information from ':help hit-enter' answers the question? I can't find it.

kotlinski 2009-05-24 12:26:28

It is possible you could get a "Press ENTER" prompt from the write all command before you shell out. The information under <code>shortmess</code> which <code>hit-enter</code> links to is valid in that case. However, the prompt you are getting is from shelling out, so Wergan's suggestion is the correct one. As noted in <code>:help :silent</code> "When using this for an external command, this may cause the screen to be messed up. Use |CTRL-L| to clean it up". You can add :redraw or Ctrl-L to your command to fix that. Or just do the two returns you're already doing.

Conspicuous Compiler 2009-06-30 21:16:43

Answer 3

+1 A:

This is how I dealt with the problem that running an external program through silent messes up the screen in text-mode vim (in my experience, gvim doesn't suffer from this problem):

command! -nargs=1 Silent
\ | execute ':silent !'.<q-args>
\ | execute ':redraw!'

Use it instead of the regular silent command:

:Silent top

slack3r 2010-05-10 15:34:34

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