I have this feeling that if I knew the correct terminology here, I wouldn't need to ask this question and Google would suffice. Alas.
Using http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2423, when I run the ':Gist' command, the plugin prints the link to the gist at the bottom of the terminal window, where one would normally enter commands. I'm not sure what this is called. I can't select the text there and thus can't copy it, and the moment I do something else, the text disappears and gets replaced with the normal mode text.
I know there is q: for viewing old commands, but is there some way that I can view old messages like the one that gist.vim spits out? Or is there at least some magical way that I can copy that beautiful text before I do something else and it disappears?
If it is relevant, I'm on OS X Lion and running Vim in iTerm. Nothing special.
Best Answer
In
:help Gist
, there is a setting that automatically copies the gist link to your clipboard with:Gist -c
Add this to your
~/.vimrc
and you're good to go.Edit:
Found a hackish solution.
Go to
gist.vim
and find this function.Change
echo
toechomsg
.Now restart vim, and after entering
:Gist
, type:message
to get the link from the message-history. The message-history logs everything fromechomsg
andechoerr
for that session.