Hi,
what the vim-remote project basically does, is to extract the client/server
functionality into a library so that you can have different programs which
are not Vim to interact with. So I can for example have a clojure backend
server which understands this protocol. The vim side would then send some
command via ':call remote_expr("My Clojure server", "(doc reduce)")' to eg.
retrieve the documentation for the reduce function. Note how the expression
is actually a *Clojure* expression. The clojure server can then a reply
again with maybe '(remote-expr "the vim client" (format
"ShowDocumentation('%s')" (-> (resolve reduce) meta :doc))'. Note how now
the remote expression is again a vim expression, now. (Of course the actual
interaction would be more complicated; just to show the idea...)
With vim-remote this is possible for X11 and Windows applications which are,
important fact, not Vim. For MacVim I suppose I have to get a suitable
NSConnection object AFAICT from my current reverse-engineering tries.
(The "call vim with approriate flags" doesn't help, because the receiving
part must again be Vim, which is not what I want.)
Unfortunately Vim does not expose this interface via sockets. *geez*
Sincerely
Meikel
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