Hi, [...]
> The D-Bus connection is an Unix socket. When vim fires a signal from the > plug-in, some data is sent through the socket to the dbus-daemon > process. But to receive D-Bus signal, the socket file descriptor must > be added somehow in the vim main loop in order to call a function to > read on the socket and I have no idea how to do that from a vim plug-in > in Python. It may not be possible to do it from a Python plug-in without > modifying the vim code. I also want to do something similar to what you want. I would like to write once (if no-one will be faster than me :) ) shell support to vim (no flame please, it just would be useful for me in some specific cases). My plan is to use empty (http://empty.sourceforge.net) as a layer above platform specific pty details. And just make vim listen on file descriptor and fill vim internal buffer structure with the received information. On the way out, I would execute external command (empty) for every line written in the shell buffer. > It seems that this "mainloop" problem is not specific to D-Bus but other > projects has the same problem: For console vim, I think that the proper place might be function RealWaitForChar, look for SNIFF code. I don't care about gui too much, at least not at the moment. Hopefully others will be able to help more. > Can you explain me the place in the vim code where the main loop is > implemented? Should I look at some of the above projects or other ones? I know vim code very little, I'm just sharing my thoughts. Hopefully it will be useful to you. -- Vlad
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