silent-mode (-es/-Es) has been broken for years. The workaround up to
now was to include --headless. But --headless is not equivalent because
it prints all messages, not the limited subset defined by silent-mode.
Treat stdin as text by default (so the "-" file is not needed):
echo foo | nvim
It works with file args (implemented in next commit), too:
echo foo | nvim file1.txt file2.txt
Why? Because:
- Execution of input is (1) almost always unintentional/confusing,
and (2) potentially destructive.
- Avoids the need for time-delayed warning. #7659
- The _common_ case is to open text in a buffer, not send commands.
Note:
- Not for Ex-mode (-es) because it is used by scripts. But maybe `-Es`?
- Not for --headless, because stdio may be a protocol stream and may be
used for any purpose by stdioopen().
To treat stdin as Normal-mode commands, use `-s -` instead:
echo ifoo | nvim -s -
Other alternatives:
- Replay a register. E.g. the following mostly works, except @q aborts
on any "beep" (e.g. if the cursor can't move).
nvim -c '%d q|norm @q' -
- Future: Let `:%source` work with unsaved buffer contents?
closes#2087closes#7659
likely fixes#7768#7913
If multiple internal stream callbacks were recieved before vimL
callbacks got called, only invoke one vimL callback with all data.
* Reading from stdin on Windows is fixed in the same way as it was in
#8267.
* The file_read function was returning without filling the
destination buffer when it was called with a non-blocking file
descriptor.
cmd.exe (shell) is faster and more reliable than powershell (.NET frontend).
It's best for short and basic tests that don't require non-trivial scripting.
cmd.exe doesn't support sleep so use powershell's Start-Sleep as substitute.
- echo "" does not hang in powershell
- cmd.exe's echo command does not hang.
- job tests default to powershell (WHY?)
- wait 5 seconds for powershell to create an empty file
- powershell is slow
- cannot reliably validate the id returned by jobstart via jobpid, jobstop
- if using cmd.exe, waiting for a second should be enough
- remaining job tests are unreliable in Windows because any build can pass/fail
for same conditions without changes, especially if the error is in stderr
Hope this will make people using feed_command less likely: this hides bugs.
Already found at least two:
1. msgpackparse() will show internal error: hash_add() in case of duplicate
keys, though it will still work correctly. Currently silenced.
2. ttimeoutlen was spelled incorrectly, resulting in option not being set when
expected. Test was still functioning somehow though. Currently fixed.
This variant uses `fdopen()` which is not standard, but it fixes problem on my
system. In next commit `scriptin` will use `FileDescriptor*` from os/fileio in
place of `FILE*`.
