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Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." by sodapopcan on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:49PM (#49869002)
Nvim's `:!` behaviour was a deliberate design decision, which is one of the reasons I just stick with Vim9.
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Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." by Agentlien on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:10PM (#49869212)
What's the issue? I use nvim and regularly use :! and haven't noticed an issue.
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Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." by kps on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:26PM (#49869401)
It does something using neovim's internal terminal mode rather than use the file descriptors it was called with. Most commonly this breaks when a command produces an interactive prompt or uses a pager.
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Re:"They had no concept of a duty of care to their users." by sodapopcan on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:15PM (#49869277)
It doesn't support interactive commands. For example if you run a command that asks for input before finishing, it gets swallowed.
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