VIM: filtering (Was Re: pgp)

[jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl (J.H.M.Dassen)]

I wrote:
> On our Sun systems, we have two versions of vim,
> with 4.2, you don't get too see pgp's prompt for the passphrase, and
>   pgp's stderr output is captured by the pipe too;
> with 3.0, you get too see pgp's prompt, and the pipe command doesn't
>   capture stderr. 
> 
> Stuart, I like 3.0's behaviour better. Can this be configured with 4.x
> somehow?

To answer my own question: yes this can be configured: the vim variable
"shellredir" is a format for how the shell redirection (involved in the
'!' construct) is done; after adding
set shellredir=>%s
to my .vimrc, I got the old behaviour back.

Ray
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