Re: vim clientserver [was: best vi / emacs python features]

2009-10-10 Thread TerryP
On Oct 10, 6:13 pm, Chris Jones wrote: > Hmm.. On *nix systems, decent applications understand the $EDITOR > environment variable - don't know about gnome & friends, though. > I tend to write programs that understand EDITOR, BROWSER, etc; wish the rest of the world did. > So what does the inter

[OT] vim clientserver [was: best vi / emacs python features]

2009-10-10 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:59:00AM EDT, TerryP wrote: > On Oct 8, 3:29 am, Chris Jones wrote: [..] > It's most valuable for sending data to an existing instance of vim, by > name. Both files and keystrokes can be sent fwiw. [..] > On top of that, I sometimes group instances of vim into 'server