I'd like to know, if you type "\alpha<tab>" in vim, will it be replaced by
the greek character ?
On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 10:35:38 PM UTC+2, Krishna Subramanian wrote:
>
> After a long search, I have finally found a solution for working with the
> Julia REPL and vim. I am working in a Windows 7/x64 environment but I
> believe my setup can also be used in other situations. I am posting it here
> in the hopes of it being useful to some other vimmer getting their hands
> dirty with Julia.
>
> My earlier setup was a follows -
>
> 1. Manually sync the directories of gvim and julia REPL
> 2. Open file in gvim, save, in julia, do include("foo.jl") and iterate
> 3. Keep doing the Alt+Tab to keep going back and forth between the two
>
> After a point, it because clear that this setup is not going to fly. My
> current setup is as follows-
>
> 1. Install Cygwin and in particular bash and GNU/screen
> 2. Ensure that the bash.exe and screen.exe from cygwin are in your PATH
> 3. Ensure that julia.exe is in your PATH
> 4. In vim, install julia-vim <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-vim>,
> ervandew/screen <https://github.com/ervandew/screen> plugins
> 5. Make some changes to the _vimrc (my setup is below)
>
> My current setup helps me work as follows (can be modified using _vimrc
> mappings)
>
>
> 1. Start gvim
> 2. cd to required directory
> 3. Type <Leader><Leader> in normal mode
> 4. This starts a julia session that communicates with gvim using
> screen. It also automatically changes the directory in the julia REPL to
> the directory gvim cwd.
> 5. Open the main script (say run.jl) in gvim
> 6. You can execute commands from this file in two ways
> - Typing <Leader><Leader> in gvim executes the whole paragraph in
> which the cursor is located, i.e. this paragraph is automatically sent
> to
> Julia REPL for execution
> - Typing <Leader>s sends the command 'include("run.jl");' to julia,
> i.e. whatever is the current buffer in gvim
> 7. I have made another modification so that I can designate a file in
> gvim as the main file, say, run.jl and then begin editing another script
> foo.jl that is including from run.jl. Now typing <Leader>s sends the
> designated main script, i.e. "include("run.jl")" to julia. I can continue
> to work on foo.jl and look at the results in the julia REPL
> 8. When I am done with julia, I type <Leader>x to end the julia
> session which automatically closes julia and the screen session
>
>
> This setup has done wonders to my productivity when I am working with
> Julia. My demo _vimrc script is here [Gist Link
> <https://gist.github.com/skrisna/f078bb34782b98e50728#file-_vimrc>].
>
> Thanks.
>
