Personally, isn't it an issue of preference? I mean, on a Linux system,
if you use an xterm plus a gvim window...why do you need this
functionality in your editor? The fact the editor will allow you to
issue a shell command is nice...but one can easily argue moving the
mouse to the xterm to issue commands is -more- than sufficient. I don't
think ViM is supposed to be an integrated development environment more
than a really good, rock solid editor. The fact that you can compile
from it...is also cool too. But heck with an xterm, ant, ViM (with
tabbed windows) - does one really need more than that ;)
Jerin Joy wrote:
Hi,
I'm able to run !mkdir.. etc.
I was thinking something similar to emacs where I can have a different
tab? open where I can compile my files, keep working for 2 weeks and
search back through the text for the first command I typed in.
But I guess its a design decision whether or not to add this
functionality to vim.
thanks,
Jerin
On 5/10/06, Bram Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jerin Joy wrote:
> I was just wondering if adding shell support to vim is a feature thats
> being considered. It would be great to be able to run commands from
> vim instead of having to shift to terminal to do so.
> I've seen vim shell but its a separate plugin:
> http://www.wana.at/vimshell/
Not really. Vim is an editor, not a shell, command line interface or
windowing system. You can already do ":!cmd", that should be
sufficient.
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