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Using vim inside irb

39 points by oscardelben 16y ago

tree_of_item 16y ago
Is there an emacscasts? The closest I can find is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts which isn't as cohesive.
- oscardelben 16y ago
  I found these with a quick search: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts
  - tree_of_item 16y ago
    That must have been a very quick search because that link is in my post :)
    - oscardelben 16y ago
      Lesson learned: read two times before posting if you're just awakened. Sorry about that.
- pook 16y ago
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a-video-of-a-professional-using-emacs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a... has a few, but mostly duplicates of emacswiki's.
crazydiamond 16y ago
Very nice. However, should not irb take from the $EDITOR environment variable, like several other such programs and allow editing of contents by itself, rather than requiring another gem to be required. I have earlier tried out other "plugins" to irb (iirc wirble to name one) .. these usually used to slow down loading of irb, and often result in messy outputs. So finally, i use a clean, default irb install. I'll certainly try this out, however. Thanks.
- kunley 16y ago
  Yeah taking from $EDITOR would be great. I use emacsclient extensively and $EDITOR is set differently wrt to context. As a temporary solution I have a monkey patch as shown here: http://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor/issues/2 http://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor/issues/2
  - kunley 16y ago
    FYI the upstream has it done already.
crazydiamond 16y ago
Slightly offtopic, but I have to say I like the HN folks a lot. I find that at reddit, vim and ruby related threads and posts get down-voted rather senselessly. The same post on HN gets upvoted and thanked. The "formatting with par" cast was nice too. Nice pleasant voice, too.
ujeezy 16y ago
Life-changing, thank you :)
micheljansen 16y ago
This will change my life :) (sounds more dramatic than I mean it, but seriously: this is really going to save me time)
korch 16y ago
This is life changing. I stopped using utility belt a long time ago since it hasn't been updated, but never heard of the interactive_editor gem. This is the simplest way to get something in vim that resembles Slime. The only other way of doing this I have seen is the Rube Goldberg contraption that (ab)uses Screen, Vim buffers and pipes.
sophacles 16y ago
Just a heads up for python people who are feeling jealous: ipython does this also :)
- nfnaaron 16y ago
  http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.html http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.htm... "TextMate¶ Currently, TextMate support in IPython is broken. It used to work well, but the code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated. vim configuration¶ Currently, vim support in IPython is broken. Like the TextMate code, the vim support code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated." I tried vim in ipython, it worked in a very simple test: define a function, :wq and run the function. Was able to get back to the same edit because ipython reports the /tmp file name after the editor returns. Dunno what's broken. Fallback: you can use ipython, python or anything else as the argument to ScreenShell in vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711
Davertron 16y ago
Someone in the comments mentions Conque (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771) which makes it easy to run other applications (mysql, irb, etc.) in a split and send text from your current buffer to the other program. As the commenter mentions, this is sort of the opposite of what this vimcast shows, and for some people might be preferable.

39 points by oscardelben 16y ago

Is there an emacscasts? The closest I can find is http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts which isn't as cohesive.

oscardelben 16y ago
I found these with a quick search: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts
- tree_of_item 16y ago
  That must have been a very quick search because that link is in my post :)
  - oscardelben 16y ago
    Lesson learned: read two times before posting if you're just awakened. Sorry about that.
pook 16y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a-video-of-a-professional-using-emacs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a... has a few, but mostly duplicates of emacswiki's.

crazydiamond 16y ago

Very nice. However, should not irb take from the $EDITOR environment variable, like several other such programs and allow editing of contents by itself, rather than requiring another gem to be required. I have earlier tried out other "plugins" to irb (iirc wirble to name one) .. these usually used to slow down loading of irb, and often result in messy outputs. So finally, i use a clean, default irb install. I'll certainly try this out, however. Thanks.

kunley 16y ago
Yeah taking from $EDITOR would be great. I use emacsclient extensively and $EDITOR is set differently wrt to context. As a temporary solution I have a monkey patch as shown here: http://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor/issues/2 http://github.com/jberkel/interactive_editor/issues/2
- kunley 16y ago
  FYI the upstream has it done already.

crazydiamond 16y ago

Slightly offtopic, but I have to say I like the HN folks a lot. I find that at reddit, vim and ruby related threads and posts get down-voted rather senselessly. The same post on HN gets upvoted and thanked. The "formatting with par" cast was nice too. Nice pleasant voice, too.

ujeezy 16y ago

Life-changing, thank you :)

micheljansen 16y ago

This will change my life :) (sounds more dramatic than I mean it, but seriously: this is really going to save me time)

korch 16y ago

This is life changing. I stopped using utility belt a long time ago since it hasn't been updated, but never heard of the interactive_editor gem. This is the simplest way to get something in vim that resembles Slime. The only other way of doing this I have seen is the Rube Goldberg contraption that (ab)uses Screen, Vim buffers and pipes.

sophacles 16y ago

Just a heads up for python people who are feeling jealous: ipython does this also :)

nfnaaron 16y ago
http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.html http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/nightly/html/config/editors.htm... "TextMate¶ Currently, TextMate support in IPython is broken. It used to work well, but the code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated. vim configuration¶ Currently, vim support in IPython is broken. Like the TextMate code, the vim support code has been moved to IPython.quarantine until it is updated." I tried vim in ipython, it worked in a very simple test: define a function, :wq and run the function. Was able to get back to the same edit because ipython reports the /tmp file name after the editor returns. Dunno what's broken. Fallback: you can use ipython, python or anything else as the argument to ScreenShell in vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2711

Davertron 16y ago

Someone in the comments mentions Conque (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2771) which makes it easy to run other applications (mysql, irb, etc.) in a split and send text from your current buffer to the other program. As the commenter mentions, this is sort of the opposite of what this vimcast shows, and for some people might be preferable.