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Yeah quickfix pane is a big annoyance of mine, but you also have things like :message that dumps a bunch of text to stdout that you can't meaningfully use direc
by simias 6y ago
Yeah quickfix pane is a big annoyance of mine, but you also have things like :message that dumps a bunch of text to stdout that you can't meaningfully use directly. Compare that to Emacs' permanent Messages buffer that is just like any other buffer.
Vim is not the worst offender by any mean, but it's definitely a lot less uniform than Emacs.
- u801e 6y agoI've been using vim for decades, but was not aware of the messages command. If it's anything like the version command or the K key for displaying the man page for a keyword under the cursor, that's also an annoyance of mine. It's also why I will redirect man page output to a standard buffer by running :r !man whatever in a new split window.
- runiq 6y agoYou can redirect stuff to a register with the following dance: :redir "a :messages :redir END Then, you can just paste from that register using "ap.