On Sep 30, 11:48 am, "Yakov Lerner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/30/07, A.Politz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > What I have in mind is :
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> > - 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.
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> > - associate process output with a buffer
> > - add a buffer option, which automatically scrolls a
> > buffer to the end
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> > or/and
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> > - make its output available via functions and autocommand.
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> Are you going to use pseudo-tty (between parent and child) ?
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> If no, then be aware you are going to have some problems.
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> If yes, then how much %% of code overlap with /usr/bin/screen
> you are going to have ?
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> Are you going to have detach/attach functionality a-la screen ?
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The idea is to make running session aware programs
(lisp, dbms, ... ) possible and non session aware programs easier.
E.g :
-start a lisp process in the background
-send a expression to it
-get the result and do something with it
Both (session and non-session ) is actually already possible,
the first one with external scripts, but imply many problems
one has to overcome.
-ap
> Are you aware of the existing trick of redirecting output of the
> process to the log-file and having vim constantly reread and
> show the bottom of the logile ?
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> Yakov
No, I am not aware of a sane way to constantly reread a file in
a visible buffer let it display the end of it ,all while I am working
in another window or the cmdline. Maybe I missed something.
-ap
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