Re: [vimplugin-devel] Current state of the project

[David T. <dav...@gm...>]

Martin Krischik wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 19 September 2007 schrieb David Terei:
> 
>> Hi Martin et al,
>>
>> You may want to check out a project I'm part of,
> 
> Right, looking at the screen shots [1]: that's precisely what I am looking 
> for. Of course I would like to use an Eclipse with an Eclim Server running in 
> the background so communication between GVim and Eclipse is two way.
> 
> Also: are you opening a new Gvim for each file? Because I don't - I use an 
> GVim Server which can open more the one file. GVim Server's are real cool.

We can do both. The plugin provides two ways to open a file, one is in a 
new vim instance by itself, the other is to open it in an existing 
('default') vim instance as a tab. The second option causes trouble when 
embedding is enabled though since you have a conflict between Eclipse 
tabs and Vim tabs. This is an issue we want to solve soon (arose since 
in the past Vim ran externally from Eclipse).

GVim servers aren't really a help for us I don't think. When running 
with Vim external from Eclipse and not embedded, as I said above we can 
open multiple Vim instances or use one with Tabs. (you choose as you 
open a file so you can use both at the same time). The issue is when its 
embedded since for each Eclipse tab you need to embed a Vim instance. 
The easy option is just to do that and open a new Vim for each file. 
Other option is providing a new 'Vim view' in which one Vim instance 
will be embedded and all files will be opened as tabs in that instance.

Other option perhaps would be to use one vim instance and try to 
dynamically embed it into each Eclipse tab as needed and use a GVim 
server backend. This I'm not even sure if it would be possible since the 
embedding is done at GUI creation and I don't see a way to be able to 
change this at all.

> 
> Suggestion: make more advertising. I have have not found your project even 
> true I was looking for it.
> 
>> (we have written a working patch for Vim though which adds this
>> feature to Windows).
> 
> Sadly I NEED Windows support. Do send the patch upstream to Bram.

We have, not sure on its status though. This is something I've been 
meaning to look into. I think that patch needs some more work though but 
at least it shows its possible.

> 
> Martin
> 
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/eeedit/wiki/ScreenShots
> [1] http://eclim.sf.net/
> 
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