Tim Pope

Yeah a path issue seems likely. Does it work with other commands e.g. `:Start bash`?

Does `:!explorer.exe` and/or `:!start explorer.exe` work on nvim?

You can force `:Dispatch` to `:Start a command with `:FocusDispatch :Start whatever`. Is that good enough?

A lot to unpack here, but let's start here: why does "things that are so short" make you reach for asynchronous? When things are very short I prefer to just...

So before anything else I really do want to get #210 wired up for both Vim 8 and Neovim, even if it is tedious and boring and easy to procrastinate....

Doesn't look right. Try `:silent make!` and see if you get a similar result.

I guess the best way to put it is "you tell me." I am open to the addition if a robust solution is possible.

Yeah I won't be implementing it until I need it personally.

What if you press `` to force a redraw without focusing the window? Does that fix the positioning?

Try with a slow script and see if that illuminates when and how it fails. Something like: ```sh for i in $(seq 1 20); do sleep 1 echo $i done...