A.Politz wrote:
> I am student of computer science. In the next semester I'll
> have to do some practical work supervised by a professor.
> Now what I really would like to do in this project, is
> giving vim the ability to start and manage subprocesses.
>
> What I have in mind is :
>
> - Obviously writing the code, that handles the processes
> (sockets ? ,portability ? ).
> I would at least want to implement this for *nix.
> - vim functions to interface with this code.
>
> - associate process output with a buffer
> - add a buffer option, which automatically scrolls a
> buffer to the end
>
> or/and
>
> - make its output available via functions and autocommand.
>
>
> Before I really get started : Does this sound reasonable ?
> I am posting this, to get some opinions and stay out of
> trouble. Since I will be graded for it, I want to realize
> the "impossibilities" while I can still choose something
> different.
>
> Thanks for any input.
For a new feature to be included in Vim, it should work at least on
MS-Windows, Unix and Mac. Subprocess stuff should be relatively easy on
Unix and Mac, but MS-Windows can be difficult. My experience is that it
works for some programs, and my crash Vim for some others. I even
managed to lockup my system. That's why Vim currently opens a console
window to run the command in.
So the first thing to work on would be doing this on MS-Windows. Test
with various native MS-Windows (or even DOS) programs. After that the
rest would be easy.
Note that I don't like the idea of running a shell in a Vim window. But
running make in the background would be useful.
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