Quickfix list populated when using :make but not with !cmake

[Uday Reddy B]

Hello,

I notice that the quickfix list and cycling through errors does not work when using ':!cmake ...' but works when using exactly the same command by setting 'let &makeprg="cmake ...' and then ':make'. 

Would there be a way to get the former working as is? Thanks!

[Christian Brabandt]

No that is not possible. The :! command, always starts an external
command from your shell. Vim does not parse the output (and doesn't even
know what kind of command is started). That's why Vim has introduced the
:make command.

Best,
Christian
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[Uday Reddy B]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 1:24 PM Christian Brabandt <cbl...@256bit.org> wrote:

On Fr, 27 Sep 2019, Uday Reddy B wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I notice that the quickfix list and cycling through errors does not work when using ':!cmake ...' but works when using exactly the same command by setting 'let &makeprg="cmake ...' and then ':make'. 
>
> Would there be a way to get the former working as is? Thanks!

No that is not possible. The :! command, always starts an external
command from your shell. Vim does not parse the output (and doesn't even
know what kind of command is started). That's why Vim has introduced the
:make command.

Thanks very much - makes sense. On this note, I notice that the :make command does not yield any colors in its output (for eg. the compiler errors that appear in red) while the same command via "!cmake ...' yields colors the same way it does on the shell. This was one reason I was trying to see if the quickfix list could work through an external command. 

- Uday

 

Best,
Christian
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