Skywind wrote: > One thing important for terminal: open file directly in the terminal > > Presume the shell in the vim's terminal and vim itself are always under the > different working directory. It is quite in-productive to switch to > terminal-normal mode and use vim's command to find and open a file. > > Emacs can open a file from eshell: > > ~ $ ls > myfile > ~ $ (find-file "myfile") > > +clientserver is not always supported. > > This case has been discussed in reddit and can't find a better solution. > > https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/83ve6g/how_to_open_file_in_current_vim_instance_from/ > > You will find it is obviously an important feature when you actually used the > builtin terminal for 3 days. > > Expecting a nice solution before vim 8.1
There was mention about this before. In a more general way, we would want the job running inside the terminal be able to talk back to the Vim in which the terminal is running. Currently $VIM_SERVERNAME is passed to the job. There is an example of how to use it: vim --servername $VIM_SERVERNAME --remote +123 some_file.c This will open the file "some_file.c" and put the cursor on line 123. Without the +clientserver feature this doesn't work, and in terminal Vim the clientserver code is not initialized by default. An alternative would be to support a custom escape sequence enclosing an arbitrary Vim command. This is tricky, since it can be abused to have Vim execute any command when catting a file to the terminal. We could restrict it to opening a file, a bit like the :drop command. That would solve perhaps 90% of the desired functionality. -- hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict: 1. You actually wore a blue ribbon to protest the Communications Decency Act. /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.