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Serg
Serg

Reputation: 326

Vim: how do I determine the status of a process within a terminal tab?

The :ls command in Vim output the current buffers in Vim. If one of the buffers is a terminal, there are some useful flags to examine there. For example, if the command was:

term echo "test"

:ls will contain this as one of the entries:

...
  7 %aF  "!echo "test" [finished]"      line 1
...

Is there a vim function that could return such extended information about a buffer? :help terminal suggests that if modifiable option is off, the job had to have finished.

before changes can be made to a terminal buffer, the 'modifiable' option must be set. This is only possible when the job has finished:

To rephrase my question, how do I know the status of a shell process started with the term command?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1215

Answers (1)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 15091

Terminal process is always bound to a buffer, not a tab. In Vim there exists a function term_getstatus(); in Neovim it's jobwait().

Here is a generic function from my config:

function! term#running(buf)
    return getbufvar(a:buf, '&buftype') !=# 'terminal' ? 0 :
        \ has('terminal') ? term_getstatus(a:buf) =~# 'running' :
        \ has('nvim') ? jobwait([getbufvar(a:buf, '&channel')], 0)[0] == -1 :
        \ 0
endfunction

Upvotes: 4

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