emulator: process finished with exit code 0 mac

However copen moves your cursor into the quickfix window when it opens, which will probably be surprising/annoying. The quickfix list lets you easily navigate to errors using :cnext. To use the quickfix error list instead: silent cget /tmp/output | copen If you want to see the output of the process, rather than just the exit code, then replace the final echo above with: silent botright pedit /tmp/output So if you can handle an extra dependency, you might be better off using a tried-and-tested solution like the vim-dispatch plugin mentioned in another answer. And if you wanted to run more than one background process at a time, you would need to add unique IDs to those files, and to the autocmd group name. Unfortunately the autocmd above won't trigger until you move the cursor.

Hey it's not pretty, but it sort-of works! Disadvantages :autocmd CursorHold * if filereadable('/tmp/finished') | exec 'augroup WaitForCompletion' | exec 'au!' | exec 'augroup END' | echo 'Process completed with exit code '.readfile('/tmp/finished') | end Now we can ask Vim to check every so often whether the process has completed: :augroup WaitForCompletion This can start a process in the background: :!slow_command_here > /tmp/output 2>&1 &īut Vim needs a way to find out when the process has completed, and how, so let's use a marker file: :!(rm -f /tmp/finished slow_command_here > /tmp/output 2>&1 echo '$?' > /tmp/finished) &

A quick and dirty solution (in pure Vimscript)

Emulator: process finished with exit code 0 mac