Startify opens shells in vim
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Description
When I open neovim, my startify screen opens but has the output from a new shell window.

In my init.vim I have the line
> let g:startify_bookmarks = systemlist("cut -sd' ' -f 2- ~/.NERDTreeBookmarks")
to show my NERDTree Bookmarks, thats the only thing I changed about it.
When I open vim with the same config, It's just normal
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in Neovim with the init.vim setting for g:startify_bookmarks and compare it with the same configuration in Vim. Determine why the systemlist("cut -sd' ' -f 2- ~/.NERDTreeBookmarks") command produces shell output on the Startify screen; done means bookmarks still appear without the shell output, while Vim behavior remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- vim
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100