How to mark the start of the shell session from Vim?

Question

When I am using vim-figitive it often shells out for commands like git push and so on.

Every time it opens a shell I see some leftovers from the previous session, something like:

Press ENTER or type command to continue

It sets me off every time because I can't figure out if this is the output from the current session or the previous one.

Is there a way to mark it with some sort of line every time I shell out from vim? Something like this in .zshrc would do it I think:

if [ -n $VIM ]; then
  echo "----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"
fi

Update It works when I run :sh, but not when I run commands from vim-fugitive. Is there is a way to intercept system() calls or whatever it is using?

Yes, subshells have a few Vim-specific environment variables set: `$VIM`, `VIMRUNTIME`, `$MYVIMRC` that you can use in your init script. — romainl, Oct 10 '14 at 08:24
You could patch the plugin to use the shell in the way that you like. — DBedrenko, Oct 10 '14 at 13:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 12 '14 at 03:46

From @tpope:

My recommendation would be to look into disabling the "alternate screen" for your terminal emulator (or terminal multiplexor). That's what I do.

Just add the following to tmux.conf

# tmux.conf
# For tmux , the alternate-screen option defaults to on
set-window-option -g alternate-screen off

How to mark the start of the shell session from Vim?

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