On May 8, 7:13 am, Dennis Benzinger <[email protected]> wrote:
(this is regarding creating an IRC plugin IIUC)
>
> If you don't insist on having everything in on buffer I'd use a
> horizontally split window. The upper window can be readonly and display
> the conversation and the lower window would be the input window. Then
> you can use all powerful abilities Vim has to offer to edit your input
> and to send your input you can setup a mapping.
>
My suggestion would be to create an Ex command to send the messages.
For the sake of demonstration, call it IRCSend (you can use whatever
name you want).
Your plugin would create a scratch buffer (with buftype=nofile), with
nomodifiable set.
You would not be able to modify this buffer at all, only through
IRCSend and any other commands you create. Your plugin could map : or
<CR> or any other key you like to open a command line with IRCSend pre-
populated.
For most sends, all the user would want to do is enter text and hit
enter. If they want greater editing abilities, they can just use the
command-line window. See :help cmdwin.
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