Vimscript Cheat Sheets - Messages

vimscript-cheat-sheets-messages.md

[Vimscript Cheat Sheets] (https://gist.github.com/vpayno/75355047b3708e040849)

By Victor Payno

Messages

echo

To output a message to the screen type:

:echo "Hello World!"
Hello World!

:echo "Hello" "World!"
Hello World!

These messages are not persisted.

To use the systems echo command use !echo:

:!echo "Hello World!"
Hello World!

echom[sg]

To output a message to the screen and to the message log type:

:echom "Hello World!"
Hello World!

To check the message list type:

:messages
Messages maintainer: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Hello World!

echon

To output the parameters without anything added in between them use echon.

echon "Hello" "World!"
HelloWorld!

echoe[rr]

echoe[rr] is like echom but it displays an error message instead.