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schmmd
schmmd

Reputation: 19448

Echo shell command within vim

I am writing some map commands that run external commands. For example, I may have the following map command to compile the working project.

nnoremap <F5> :!mvn compile test<CR>

However, when vim switches to a shell, it's not clear what command is running. Is there a way for the command to show up on the shell, short of echoing it? It seems tedious to need to write the following each time, but it would do what I want.

nnoremap <F5> :!echo "mvn compile test"<CR>:!mvn compile test<CR>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1001

Answers (1)

MetaEd
MetaEd

Reputation: 3871

If your external command processor is a UNIX style shell, it has an echo feature, and you need only to pass the x option to it:

map <F5> :!sh -xc 'mvn compile test'<CR>

Upvotes: 2

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