On Mar 29, 11:55 am, Philippe Fremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Caleb Cushing wrote: > > I've noticed most recently the need for a vi(m) environment is several gui's > > as sort of an embedded editor. this is really a several year old problem. > > > what I'm wondering is... is there anything vim could do to facillitate/ease > > the implementation of such gui's. I hear rumors of a netbeans protocol (was > > that for the netbeans ide? 'cause that don't work no more) but I'm not sure > > that is what's needed for all the problems. not being a programmer... > > > would it be possible in future version (maybe 8.0) for vim to implement an > > api? or perhaps there is another way to get functionality easily embedded > > into just about any editor enviroment needed. > > Actually and to my surprise, vim is missing very little to be usable in > connection with an IDE. I plan to propose patches for the parts that > could help further. Those will be very small patches because everything > is already there in vim. No need to wait for 8.0 . > > The netbean stuff is really not netbean related but a socket interface > to control vim from a remote program. If that remote program is an IDE, > you have what you want. > > My plan is to get a generic python vim-remote-controller as a first > milestone, and then get the same things in other frameworks: gtk, Qt, > MFC, whatever... > > I'll keep this list (and yzis list) updated about it. > > Philippe
Hi, PIDA http://pida.co.uk/ is an IDE which embeds Vim like this (and has since Vim 6). As far as we can tell, Vim is missing nothing to make it usable in this way. It also includes a Python remote controller for Vim. Obligatory screenshot: http://pida.co.uk/files/screenshots/pida_0-5_13.png Cheers, Ali --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
