Does :global convert tabs to spaces prior to sending to the screen?

[Rod Holcomb]

I have the following function in my .vimrc


command! -nargs=+ -complete=command TabMessage call TabMessage(<q-args>)
function! TabMessage(cmd)
redir => message
silent execute a:cmd
redir END
tabnew
silent put=message
set nomodified
endfunction



basically it redirect message to a new tab.
however when I run
:TabMessage g//

tabs my buffer get stripped on there way to the new tab.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

[Christian Brabandt]

Hi Rod!

I think this happens by the redir function, which basically gets the
output from the screen and does not know, that the underlying message
has been using tabs.


Best,
Christian
--
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-- Charles-Louis de Montesquieu

[Rod Holcomb]

>
> I think this happens by the redir function, which basically gets the
> output from the screen and does not know, that the underlying message
> has been using tabs.
>

In an earlier post I had not done enough testing the new split window from
:OutputSplitWindow does not properly retain tabs. Now I really need to learn vimscript.

--Rod.