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vim-crossplatform.md

Vim Script cross-platform scripting between Windows and Linux

Test Environment

  • Vim 8 on Windows 10 (from chocolatey)
  • Vim 7 on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10

system()

echo system('(echo foo) && (echo bar)')

Windows prints only bar (last command result) Linux prints foo and bar

To solve this incompatibility, surround entire commands

echo system('((echo foo) && (echo bar))')

Then, both Windows and Linux returns foo and bar.

systemlist()

echomsg systemlist('((echo foo) & (echo bar))')

systemlist() cannot remove carridge return.

Windows returns ['foo\r', 'bar\r'] Linux returns ['foo', 'bar']

Should be

split(system('...'), '\v\r?\n')
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