Comment 13 for bug 719649

This is a good idea. I did manage to get it to run with screen and the
console version of vim, but it's brittle, as we have all seen. The
testing should be not be dependent on screen. It's too tricky.

Anyway, that's my opinion.

On 2/19/2011 5:01 PM, Ryan Wooden wrote:
> That's what I've been trying to deal with too. I didn't get it to work,
> and based on what I'm seeing online, it looks like it can't be done. The
> windows version of vim directly accesses the console, but screen doesn't
> simulate the windows console.
>
> The only real option I'm seeing for getting tests to run on windows is
> to rewrite the tester. I don't think this would actually be that bad of
> an idea. I'd like to see the testing code run in a single vim window. We
> could still use python to run the tests, but show the results in the
> quickfix window or even just a different buffer.
>
> Thoughts?
>