ask user for input interactively

Question

hi, i was hoping for being able to do something like
`:execute 'echo' '"'.term('dialog --inputbox foobar 20 20')."'"`
but this was really naive. can you please advise the recommended way of asking user for an input from an already executed command? thank you, j

Answer 1

I don't think there is any recommended way. There was something in TODO, but it's not implemented.

Your command just lacks stream redirections to make dialog draw on terminal, but print answer to vifm's pipe:

:execute 'echo' '"'.term('dialog --inputbox foobar 20 20 2>&1 > /dev/tty').'"'