Re: [vimplugin-devel] Current status?

[Sebastian M. <seb...@un...>]

Hi all

Am Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:17:31 +0100
schrieb "Gavin Gilmour" <gav...@gm...>:

> I was wondering if there was any sort of recent status update on
> vimplugins development?
> 
> Having a look at all the alternatives to bring vim into eclipse, I'd
> say that
> this was probably the most preferable route that you guys are taking.
> I'm a little saddened that such functionality isn't rock solid in
> eclipse and marketed as a feature by this time, but what can you do I
> suppose!
> 
> Is the project still active off and on? I realize that you've said
> development is slow on your main page, I just wondered how slow it
> was really.

Yeah, it is slow and more important not continous: when I have the time
and leisure I can be quite productive, but often other things are more
important.

But the source code is there. If you have the skill, send a patch as
described here: http://vimplugin.org/developerguide and ill be happy to
apply it.

Also improvements to the wiki are always welcome.

Of first priority to me seems to make it stable. There are some issues
and a lot of missing features. But to get more ppl using it, it should
be "simply working". Ill try to make a "0.4.0" as a stable version, and
then continue to work on a "0.5.x" development-branch. This seems to
customary for such projects.

 
> I was looking forward to trying vimplugin out, but I'm hitting some
> issues with
> installation after an hour or so of mucking about. I'm just getting
> dumped the
> following stacktrace:
> 
>     !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2008-07-19 17:10:08.948
>     !MESSAGE Unable to create editor ID
> org.vimplugin.editors.VimEditor: An unexpected exception was thrown.
>     !STACK 0
>     java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at
> org.vimplugin.editors.AbstractVimEditor.close(AbstractVimEditor.java:309)
>         at
> org.vimplugin.editors.AbstractVimEditor.createPartControl(AbstractVimEditor.java:133)
>         at
> .....

> The error presented within the eclipse GUI itself is:
> 
> "Cannot create the in-place editor, this is probably because there is
> no OLE editor registered against the type of file you were trying to
> open." Details:
> Class ID not found in registry result = -2147221018
> 
> ..when attempting to launch a gvim instance. I've properly registered
> the file
> type and I'm currently on eclipse 3.4 which might matter (ganymede)
> and have tried with the latest windows vim installer, latest cream
> installer and latest
> cygwin vim and still I'm having issues. I realise that 3.4 might be a
> bit recent though (maybe?).

This sounds Windows specific, I havent used Windows for ages, sorry.
Anyone else?

> P.S. Could you please cc me if you reply to this email, the prospect
> of signing
> up to sourceforges spam infested mailinglist isn't attractive!

This wont work in the long run, I CC you, but usually ppl just hit
reply...

> P.P.S. I'll try and hang out on #vimplugin too for what it is worth
> (nick: vesech).

Sorry, im only an occasional IRC user, perhaps we should remove that
from the wiki.

Regards, Seb.