Hi list!
I wrote a plug-in that aims to improve the integration between Vim and
its environment by providing functions to switch to full-screen, open
URLs in the user's default web browser and execute external commands in
the background without opening a command prompt window. A DLL is
included to perform these things on Windows, while on UNIX external
commands are used (such as wmctrl, gnome-open, kde-open, etc.)
I'm not sure yet how portable the included DLL file is between different
types of Windows installations. You can find a first ZIP release of the
plug-in on its Vim scripts page at
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3123
I'd be very grateful if some of you can test the plug-in by unpacking
the ZIP release in your %USERPROFILE%\vimfiles or ~/.vim/ directory,
restarting Vim and testing the three functions as follows:
1. Execute :call xolox#shell#openurl('http://www.vim.org/')
Does this open your preferred (or best available) web browser? On UNIX
if $DISPLAY is empty the plug-in will switch to a command-line browser.
2. (Windows only) Execute :call xolox#shell#execute('notepad')
Does this start Notepad without blocking Vim's window and without
opening a command prompt window to run the command?
3. In graphical Vim execute :call xolox#shell#fullscreen()
Is Vim's GUI window properly switched to full-screen mode? If so you can
return to normal mode by calling the function again. If you're stuck in
full-screen Vim, save your existing buffers and press `Alt-F4`, that
should always work.
One last thing: I run Windows in a virtual machine which isn't exposed
to the outside world much, however I don't have a virus scanner
available and didn't check the freshly compiled DLL, so if you don't
trust me feel free to scan it yourself before trying the plug-in :-)
Thanks for your time,
- Peter Odding
* http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3114
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