I have following instruction in my .vimrc:
map t :!../tt <C-R><C-W> <CR><CR>
It works quite fine: vim gets word from file and runs ../t word. But one annoying thing is when the command is run vim returns to shell for a while and then return to file. I don't need to see command output so is it possible to get around this annoying flash?
You can try either
nnoremap <silent> t :<C-u>silent !../tt <C-r>=shellescape(expand('<cword>'), 1)<CR><CR><C-l>
or
nnoremap <silent> t :<C-u>call system('../tt '.shellescape(expand('<cword>')))<CR>
or even
nnoremap <expr> <silent> t system('../tt '.shellescape(expand('<cword>')))[-1]
. Note some things:
map (without n and nore) unless you have a specific reason. I believe you don’t need this mapping for visual and operator-pending modes (leading n restricts mapping to normal mode only) and you also should not want this mapping to be remappable.<C-u> to discard count you can occasionally type unless you do know you need it (third version uses two hacks that turn mapping to no-op with a side-effect and does not need <C-u>).silent ! (do not forget space after silent, this is why @David Pope’s answer does not work) has <C-l> at the end. This is because using ! will always provide access to your terminal and thus redraw is needed after command has run.system() won’t work if you add an argument containing newline, it is a documented bug. If you don’t want to do so (expand('<cword>') won’t ever add newline) it is absolutely safe.t is a very useful motion. It is better to learn to use it then remap it to something. I suggest ,t as a lhs.I believe this should work.
map <silent> t :silent!../tt <C-R><C-W> <CR><CR>
But I don't have your tt app so I couldn't test for stderr vs. stdout vs. etc.; I have no idea if those matter in vim.
#!/bin/bash FILE_OF_EX=~/tmp/to_trans echo $1 > $FILE_OF_EX
$ ../t worddo? What's the output? Do you want to put it in the buffer?t? This is a useful movement command ...