> I haven't seen much discussion of the intermediate solution: have a > command shell that *isn't* a terminal emulator. > > There have been several attempts at this, with varying degrees of > success. A command shell window which does good, solid handling of > command line utilities would be terrific. It would require none of > the morass of issues of terminal emulation, but still allow me/you to > do many of the things that would be so useful. > > I'm currently switching around between plugins like vimsh.vim which > uses Python, and my own home grown version which uses more primitive > interaction with Cygwin OS. They come close, but aren't fully > fledged, and seemingly aren't well known or used.
I think with a few small additions to vim I could make vimsh a very good substitute. The big sticking point right now is async I/O. I've tried just about every trick in the book with none providing a good solution. I'm interested in seeing what you've done w/ cygwin. I personally like vimsh better than the possibility of an intergrated terminal because I like being able to move around it like a buffer with all the benefits of that, like the movement keys, yanking, etc, etc. > I'm fiddling around with using my GetChar patch, which would allow > character by character interaction from Vim script with an external > shell. This would be best, but until something like this becomes > official, a good line by line interaction would satisfy a real need. > > An officially distributed plugin would be a great addition to Vim, on > the order of Netrw. I'd like to have my plugin be in vim proper but unfortunately it depends on python. ~brian -- .--------------------------------------------------,--------. | Brian Sturk - http://users.adelphia.net/~bsturk \ C/C++ | .> )\,^a__ |-------------------------. bsturk<AT>adelphia.net | Python |( _ _)/ /-."~ | http://www.telengard.com `------------------------`-------| `( )_ )/ | Telengard Technologies Inc. - NT/*nix UI & device drivers |_<_s_<_s `-----------------------------------------------------------'
