Hi, For some reason I need to access some local service within vim, this can be Unix socket (d-bus, x message, etc.) or TCP socket (http, ftp, etc.).
A typical example is an IM engine, which can provide service to both XIM and vimim. The engine may need a relatively long start-up time to build the cache and it only need to start once, while vim should start-up very fast and run many times. Separate them may be a good idea. I found nothing related to socket access or IPC feature in vim script so I cannot do that from within vim script. Seek for python or perl support is not an option here, since we should not add unnecessary dependency to end-users. Adding IPC support seems no problem for vim design philosophy, since this enables vim interact with other applications better, instead of incorporating other application features into vim itself. Any hints? -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
