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I do something similar but with named pipes. I use it to dispatch commands from vim to another tmux pane (or screen, for that matter). https://gist.github.com/

by kolme 11y ago

I do something similar but with named pipes. I use it to dispatch commands from vim to another tmux pane (or screen, for that matter). https://gist.github.com/manuel-colmenero/94c53afbb3a167c6e769 https://gist.github.com/manuel-colmenero/94c53afbb3a167c6e76... recieve: ./vimfifo pipe send: echo 'ls' > pipe (note that the command is runned in the "recieving end", so that vim doesn't block)

jmcphers 11y ago
Have you seen dispatch.vim? It makes it easy to dispatch commands from Vim to a tmux split, etc. https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch
- kolme 11y ago
  Yes, and I also use it, but :Dispatch takes the output to the error list, and :Start doesn't display the output (ot waits for promt). With this script I can have the following layout: .-----------------. | | | | Vim | output | | | | | | | `-----------------' I usually do this when editing a script, for a quick edit-run feedback. For example: :update | RunFifo bash % Runs the script and displays the output on the side. And then for saving and re-running the same command is just: @: