skywind3000/asyncrun.vim

Feature: Run in a terminal, but send output to quickfix?

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wookayin commented

The -mode=? option allows where to run the job: async (quickfix window), term, etc.

:AsyncRun -mode term make

This will open a terminal window and run the command there. It's very useful, but one thing I wish is the output of the command can be captured and sent to the quickfix window when the job finishes, and/or streamed to the quickfix window (optionally).

Such a feature would very useful to navigate and browse the command output (which will be lost when the terminal closes), like compilation error and diagnostics messages, etc.

skywind3000 commented

It is possible:

:AsyncRun -mode=term -pos=TAB -post=caddf\ ~/.error.txt|copen   ls | tee ~/.error.txt

If you are using asynctasks.vim:

You can define a new task:

[make-tee]
command=ls | tee ~/.error.txt
notify=:caddf ~/.error.txt | copen
output=terminal
pos=TAB

then:

:AsyncTask make-tee
wookayin commented

That's quite ugly -- but quite nice workaround. I think it would be quite non-trivial to stream the output from the terminal (but technically possible, see https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch), but first-class and seamless API would be good to have (so one can switch between different modes easily).

wookayin commented 
:AsyncRun -mode=term -pos=TAB -program=capture  ls -la

Why does it print some verbose messages like the following?

(1 of 1): [ls]
(1 of 29): [ls]
Press ENTER or type command to continue