Tim Pope

I think what you want to do, effectively, is prepend `:Spawn` to the string. But make sure you end up with `:Spawn -dir=...` and not `-dir=... :Spawn`, and never add...

Oh, you'll actually need `:Spawn -wait=always` to match how `:.Spawn` works.

I guess my first question is why the `aftercmd` dance rather than just appending a string in `screen.vim`?

The reason we strip it out is so you can `:Start` a different version of Vim with everything going to hell. There isn't a reason to do that with `:Dispatch`,...

Does checking for a complete form imply parsing it?

This assumes the client has a full EDN parser at its disposal. Is that a requirement? I was under the impression that it was not a requirement.

Also, if the client has a full parser, why bother with pretty printing at all? It can also be done client side.

This context for my stakes in this issue is https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace/issues/336, wherein @bbatsov suggests I enable streaming in Fireplace and I point out that introduces a bug. > @tpope : think...

If my recollection is correct, for this to be backwards compatible, we would need to flag the messages that *aren't* end of stream, as the old default was that every...

Okay, so for starters, I completely agree with @jdonaldson, and I was trying to make it a full week before I complained. That said, there's a bit of merit to...