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Running a shell script in .vimrc (and handling output)

I am trying to run a shell script from a .vimrc file (three issues noted in the script):

function! CheckMe(file)
    let shellcmd = 'checkme '.a:file

    " Start the command and return 0 on success.
    " XXX: How do you evaluate the return code?
    execute '!'.shellcmd
    if !result
        return 0
    endif

    " Ending up here, the command returned an error.
    " XXX: Where to you get the output?
    let pair = split(output, '\S')
    let line = pair[0]
    let char = pair[1]

    " Jump to the errenous column and line.
    " XXX: Why does this not work?
    normal '/\%'.line.'l\%'.char.'c'
    return 1
endfunction

So, to summarize how you get the result / output of the script, and why does the transition statement not work?

Additional Information:

  • The shell script returns 0 on success and 1 on failure. On error, the script prints two numbers (row and column number) in stdout, separated by a space character.
  • According to Vim docs, the argument of the “normal” keyword is “executed as it is typed,” but apparently this is not the case. It works fine when I print it (in normal command mode without specifying ":"), but not in the script ("E78: Unknown label").
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function! CheckMe(file)
    let shellcmd = 'checkme '.a:file

    let output=system(shellcmd)
    if !v:shell_error
        return 0
    endif

    " Are you sure you want to split on non-blanks? This 
    " will result in list of blank strings.
    " My variant:
    let [line, char]=split(output)

    " Normal is not an execute: this is what it will do:
    " «'/» means «Go to mark /», produces an error E78 because /
    " is not a valid symbol for mark. Than normal stops after error occured.
    " If you need to use variables in nomal use «execute 'normal '.ncmd».
    " And you can not use «normal» to perform search
    execute '/\%'.line.'l\%'.char.'c'
    " or
    call setpos('.', [0, line, char, 0])
    return 1
endfunction

Vim "" ", ", , -, . , ( ":" ), script ( "E78: " ).

"'/", .

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, system() ! shell.

:

The result is a String.  Example:
            :let files = system("ls " .  shellescape(expand('%:h')))


The resulting error code can be found in |v:shell_error|.

, output , result - v:shell_error. .

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