How can I get a navigable (editable?) buffer with vim's `messages`?
Solution 1:
The answer by Heptite is a good way to do this using built-ins. If you're okay with using a plugin, my bufferize plugin automates the process a bit. Lets you just do:
:Bufferize messages
In order to get a preview buffer with the contents of that command's output.
As a side note, I'm surprised the :messages
output is not selectable. I guess maybe you're using Vim with a GUI? With terminal Vim, you can select, and then middle-click-paste the content.
Solution 2:
Try this:
:redir > messages.txt
:messages
:redir END
:e messages.txt
You can suppress output to the display while still capturing the messages output by changing :messages
to :silent messages
.
Solution 3:
Try this:
:put = execute('messages')