Hi,
So I noticed that vim has :terminal. I have compiled myself 8.1.0026 and
started to experiment. There are two major drawbacks for me and so this
email - a plea for considering updating them. I would like to have the
ability to modify the terminal contents and I would like the terminal to
behave more like regular buffer with regards to text highlight.
My use case for running terminal in vim is to run debugging window
alongside windows showing source code. I happen to debug core dumps from
binaries without debug info so there is lot of hex numbers around. To
visually distinguish the "important" hex numbers I use Ingo's beautiful
plugin Mark[1]. When I list a stack trace I immediately see the
important hex numbers highlighted. In :terminal I can see the highlight
only if the terminal is in "normal" mode.
Second feature I use is to edit the history of the terminal window.
Running debugger commands to investigate core dump I get a lot of output
I don't need. Long structures, long stack traces, repeated commands,
etc. The buffer can get long and it's difficult to search for what I
need. On the other side it's handy to add comments for specific
registers, assembly instructions etc.
I have in the past hacked myself a clone of ConqueShell which does what I
need[2]. I have not been able to merge my changes into ConqueShell
itself[3]. I don't remember whether it was that I got no reply from
maintainer or they didn't want my changes. It would be great if I could
dump my plugin in favor of :terminal as it has it's drawbacks too (slow,
can't read text if the cursor is outside of the visible area, funny
problems when trying to run 'graphical' things like mc.)
Thank you
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Vlad
[1] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2666
[2] https://github.com/vlmarek/ConqueVlad
[3] https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771
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