[vimplugin-devel] Vimplugin on Windows XP - definitive advice?

[Stewart C. <ste...@gm...>]

Dear Vimplugin list,

I have seen in the archives and on the forum several posts on the
subject of having vimplugin work in eclipse on Windows XP. I think I
must have read most if not all of them. I still have some confusion as
to whether I should be expecting it to work and if so, how to get it
to do so.

I give example of such posts below.

This is what I understand so far:
- that it should be possible to get vimplugin to work on Windows XP if
you have cygwin installed and refer to <cygwin-root>/bin/vim.exe as
your version of Vim
- that I am not the only one to experience Eclipse hanging when I try this
- that those people who have got vimplugin to work on windows have
(magically) not experienced this hanging, or at least not had to solve
it - or they didn't post what they did to solve it.
- I see several posts on this subject, including my own, with no real
answer on this.

Does anyone have any definitive knowledge or advice they could share
regarding how to setup vimplugin on a Windows XP environment?

I don't want to be a pain, but I'm keen to have such a valuable tool
at my disposal, and am quite frustrated that I have been unable to get
it to work.

In other words, is Vimplugin for Linux only, or not?

Many thanks for any help or advice I may receive on this. I will
definitely share / post it widely for posterity.

Regards,

Stewart


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[vimplugin-devel] Vimplugin just hangs under Windows/Cygwin
From: David Griffiths <david.griffiths@gm...> - 2007-12-04 15:42
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Hi, I've just installed vimplugin using these instructions:
http://vimplugin.sourceforge.net/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Community.Installationand
it hangs when trying to open a file. This is on Windows XP with
Eclipse
3.3.1.1. I'm also using Cygwin. I've tried pointing the vimplugin path at
Cygwin vim.exe and gvim.exe and I've also downloaded the Windows gvim build
and tried that and none of them work. I get the messages:

Trying to start vim
> Started vim
> Server started and listening
>

Eclipse is then totally hung.

but then I get those same messages if I point the path at cat.exe! There are
some mysterious Port/Host/Password settings but I can't find any
documentation on them.

Also I was a bit confused by the fact that the main web site refers to
vimplugin depending on JTA (is this something I need to download
separately?) and other pages I've seen that say it uses a Netbeans protocol
that requires a special vim build.

Thanks,

Dave
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vim v. gvim _vimrc and colors
By: kilgore trout (serfian) - 2007-05-21 11:46
Hi all:

I'm running eclipse on WinXP and had been using gvim 7.1. I have
finally gotten eclipse to load the vim plugin (one must point to the
cygwin/bin/vim.exe rather than the 'normal' gvim executable).

Remaining questions: Can the plugin run gvim? (when I changed the
preference to point to it, it would launch, but as an indepenent app).

the cygwin version doesn't appear to like my existing _vimrc file
(probably due to it's non-gui nature). However, I would like to change
the default color scheme, but am having a few problems. Can someone
point me toward a list of available colors (bg and fg) with the
non-gui vim? I have tried a number of them that are listed in the vim
help, but they are either ignored or garishly wrong.

Where can I put my eclipse based _vimrc file? Is that in /usr/share/vim?

Also, when I attempt to edit a file (*.c), vim is not the default
editor (even though it is so mapped), but must use the 'edit with'
option. Is this a bug, or pilot error?

When I attempt to open another file (with the first still open), I get
a black unresponsive window where I would expect to see the source of
the second file. Bug or pilot error?

Thanks!

-kt.
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Windows Display Problems
By: Legit (legit) - 2008-01-22 10:49
Hi All,

I'm running eclipse on win xp with version 3.3 and have gvim for
windows installed. everything works fine except that when i open a
file in the vim editor (via vim plugin) it opens a seperate window for
vim, instead of keeping it in the standard eclipse window. is this a
problem with the plugin on windows or is this a problem with the way
i've set it up.

thanks,
- legit


      RE: Windows Display Problems
      By: Legit (legit) - 2008-01-22 10:51
      heh, nevermind, see the solution lower down in the forum. Sorry,
didn't see it when i was searching.
      - legit
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