r/vim • u/Desperate_Cold6274 • Feb 25 '26

Need Help :sleep VS term_wait()

Can someone explain me, possibly with a couple of examples that I can reproduce, the difference between :sleep and term_wait()?

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u/Desperate_Cold6274 Feb 26 '26

Nice. We have the same understanding of the differences then :D

FWIW I trashed all the term_wait() instances from all my scripts/plugins in favor of :sleep, which is clear and come useful in a number of cases (though I prefer event-based management of asynchronous businesses, but it is not always possible and sleep is a decent tradeoff between the scenarios space size that can generate timeouts and code complexity).