Andrea Ratto wrote:
I think we are missing some easy integration with gnome desktop. Here is
how I got to think so:
I was working with some files on a remote folder using nautilus and
noticed I could open remote text files with gedit transparently; but
that did not work with gvim.
I knew vim can handle editing over ssh, and I would really value
clicking on a remote file and have it opened in gvim instead of gedit.
To cut a long story short I ended up in making this small script
under /usr/local/bin
#!/bin/bash
if [[ $# = 0 || $# = 1 && $1 = "-f" ]]; then
/usr/bin/gvim $1
else
/usr/bin/gvim --remote-tab `echo $@ | sed 's/-f//' | sed 's/ssh:
\/\/\(\w\+\)@\(\w\+\)\//scp:\/\/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/\//gi'`
fi
And now gvim behaves just like gedit!
I can open files from nautilus in the existing gvim session and open
files from a ssh folder. I like this behaviour and I think that very
little work is necessary to implement such features in the official
gvim, at least in the one with gnome support.
Basically what we need to get this quikly is:
1: have netrw handle links like ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/folder/file just like it
handles scp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]//folder/file. May require similar changes for
other protocols as well.
2: allow --remote-tab with no argument to open a blank gvim session
instead of failing
what about --remote-tab-silent ?
3: change the exec line of the gvim.desktop from "gvim -f %U" to "gvim
-f -p --remote-tab %F"
IIUC, that's not a change in Vim. It may be a change in the Vim package in
your Linux distro if it installs that Vim shortcut. The "make install" from
the "official" Vim installation (as downloaded straight from ftp.vim.org )
installs no keyboard shortcut. But IMHO those --remote-tab and -p parameters
shouldn't be there by default. I don't know the difference between %U and %F.
Even better: we could add some internal options like ":set remotetabs"
and ":set openintabs" so that this behavior can be set on a per user
basis. This would be elegant and could work with "gvim -f %F" exec
command in the .dekstop file.
I'm skeptical about the usefulness of such additional options.
I'd like to know your opinions about this.
PS: it also seems that --remote-tab does play well with gnome
startup-notification when a session is already opened, but this is just
a cosmetic bug.
The fact that it does indeed play well is a cosmetic bug ??? There's something
there that I don't quite grasp.
Best regards,
Tony.
--
There was a gay countess of Bray,
And you may think it odd when I say,
That in spite of high station,
Rank and education,
She always spelled cunt with a "k".
