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mtkcs
mtkcs

Reputation: 1716

Running rspec inside gvim

Running rspec from inside gvim give this weird output:

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Has anyone an idea from where came the issue? Note: running rspec from vim works as expected, the problem is specefic to gvim, I tried changing the font but nothing.

Using vim: enter image description here

Upvotes: 2

Views: 174

Answers (2)

Peter Rincker
Peter Rincker

Reputation: 45087

You may want to look into using Dispatch.vim to run you test. Dispatch's main feature running task asynchronous and then once done you can see the results in the quickfix window via :Copen. From the documentation you just run the following:

:Dispatch rspec %

If you decide to not use dispatch.vim I would at least try and use :make so that you can take advantage of the quickfix list. Just do :compiler rspec to setup :make for using rspec.

Another option maybe using col -bp to remove some control characters. e.g. !rspec foo | col -bp

For more help see:

:h quickfix
:h :copen
:h :make
:h :compiler

Upvotes: 1

Ingo Karkat
Ingo Karkat

Reputation: 172520

When you use GVIM, there's only a very primitive terminal emulation for external commands. This is okay for capturing output, but it doesn't understand the ANSI escape sequences to output different colors and other fancy stuff. That's the gibberish you see.

First, drop off the --color argument to rspec that presumably instructs the command to use color output. That should at least reduce the gibberish. If there's still some, prefixing :! TERM=dumb spring rspec ... might help.

Upvotes: 1

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