Execute an Ex command or commands and return the output as a string. {command} can be a string or a List. In case of a List the lines are executed one by one. This is equivalent to: redir => var {command} redir END The optional {silent} argument can have these values: "" no :silent used "silent" :silent used "silent!" :silent! used The default is "silent". Note that with "silent!", unlike :redir, error messages are dropped. When using an external command the screen may be messed up, use system() instead. It is not possible to use :redir anywhere in {command}. To get a list of lines use |split()| on the result: split(execute('args'), "\n") To execute a command in another window than the current one use win_execute(). When used recursively the output of the recursive call is not included in the output of the higher level call. Can also be used as a |method|: GetCommand()->execute()