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patch 8.0.1609: shell commands in the GUI use a dumb terminal commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/135682517bc378cfdb63fe3a6e3553935f69f6ce Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Fri Mar 16 20:46:58 2018 +0100 patch 8.0.1609: shell commands in the GUI use a dumb terminal Problem: Shell commands in the GUI use a dumb terminal. Solution: Add the "!" flag to 'guioptions' to execute system commands in a special terminal window. Only for Unix now.
author Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
date Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:00:08 +0100
parents 02b3f719eacb
children 9eebe457eb3c
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--- a/runtime/doc/options.txt
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@@ -3845,7 +3845,14 @@ A jump table for the options with a shor
 	To avoid problems with flags that are added in the future, use the
 	"+=" and "-=" feature of ":set" |add-option-flags|.
 
-	Valid letters are as follows:
+	Valid characters are as follows:
+								*'go-!'*
+	  '!'	External commands are executed in a terminal window.  Without
+		this flag the MS-Windows GUI will open a console window to
+		execute the command.  The Unix GUI will simulate a dumb
+		terminal to list the command output.
+		The terminal window will be positioned at the bottom, and grow
+		upwards as needed.
 							*guioptions_a* *'go-a'*
 	  'a'	Autoselect:  If present, then whenever VISUAL mode is started,
 		or the Visual area extended, Vim tries to become the owner of