A.J.Mechelynck wrote:
Eric Roberts wrote:
Hi,
I'm interested in being able to send/recieve telnet messages. It's
for a debugger that is used over telnet. I know this is a fairly
esoteric problem, and as far as I can tell there's no direct way of
doing this but I thought I'd might ask to be sure.
If there isn't any direct support for this - what's the best method
of extending Vim to do this? I've looked at the the vimsh plugin -
which does nearly what I need it too, except interactive programs
like the telnet client program on windows doesn't work.
The gdbvim and the clewn project seem to demonstrate that is
definately possible to communicate between different processes and Vim.
I don't mind a learning curve, I'm just interested in where would I
start? ;)
Thanks for your time in advance,
- Eric
Why do you want to use Vim to send and receive telnet messages? Vim is
a text editor, not a front-end for an interactive program like a shell
(see ":help shell-window) or the telnet program.
Start gvim in one (MS-Windows) window and telnet from a Dos Box in
another window, and you'll have Vim and telnet on the same screen.
Or if you're dead set on launching interactive sessions in an editor
window, use emacs (withing a Cygwin shell if necessary).
Best regards,
Tony.
As stated above, it's for a telnet debugger. Vim is a programmer
friendly text editor and there seems to be a fair amount of effort to
extend it to work with debuggers and I was curious about extending it to
a specific one in my case. I would think that the existing extensions to
use Vim with gdb would be somewhat analogous to my situation.
- Eric
