Skywind wrote:
> One thing important for terminal: open file directly in the terminal
>
> Presume the shell in the vim's terminal and vim itself are always under the
> different working directory. It is quite in-productive to switch to
> terminal-normal mode and use vim's command to find and open a file.
>
> Emacs can open a file from eshell:
>
> ~ $ ls
> myfile
> ~ $ (find-file "myfile")
>
> +clientserver is not always supported.
>
> This case has been discussed in reddit and can't find a better solution.
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/83ve6g/how_to_open_file_in_current_vim_instance_from/
>
> You will find it is obviously an important feature when you actually used the
> builtin terminal for 3 days.
>
> Expecting a nice solution before vim 8.1
There was mention about this before. In a more general way, we would
want the job running inside the terminal be able to talk back to the Vim
in which the terminal is running.
Currently $VIM_SERVERNAME is passed to the job. There is an example of
how to use it:
vim --servername $VIM_SERVERNAME --remote +123 some_file.c
This will open the file "some_file.c" and put the cursor on line 123.
Without the +clientserver feature this doesn't work, and in terminal Vim
the clientserver code is not initialized by default.
An alternative would be to support a custom escape sequence enclosing an
arbitrary Vim command. This is tricky, since it can be abused to have
Vim execute any command when catting a file to the terminal.
We could restrict it to opening a file, a bit like the :drop command.
That would solve perhaps 90% of the desired functionality.
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