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ardagnir / athame

Full vim for your shell (bash, zsh, gdb, python, etc)
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Better neovim embedding #70

Closed rgreenblatt closed 5 years ago

rgreenblatt commented 5 years ago

First of all, this is an awesome project :).

When spawning terminals within neovim, it should (at least in theory) be possible for athame to use that neovim process. This would be useful for shared registers and a few other things. I am potentially interested in implementing this feature, but I don't have a great idea of how doable this is. As far as I can tell, this could be done by adding another option to start_vim which sources vimbed and ~/.athemrc in the existing instance and opens the appropriate file. athemrc would also need to be changed such that the bindings are buffer specific. Thought?

ardagnir commented 5 years ago

Thanks!

I agree that this would be useful, but the problem is that Athame expects a normal vim buffer, so neovim would have to act like the current buffer is a normal vim buffer, but display it as if it were a terminal buffer. The other problem is we want neovim to send user keys to the shell which would send keys to athame, which would send the keys to neovim. If you used the same neovim, you'd get a loop unless it could tell which keys came directly from the user and which came from athame.

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First of all, this is an awesome project :).

When spawning terminals within neovim, it should (at least in theory) be possible for athame to use that neovim process. This would be useful for shared registers and a few other things. I am potentially interested in implementing this feature, but I don't have a great idea of how doable this is. As far as I can tell, this could be done by adding another option to start_vim which sources vimbed and ~/.athemrc in the existing instance and opens the appropriate file. athemrc would also need to be changed such that the bindings are buffer specific. Thought?

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rgreenblatt commented 5 years ago

Ah, I see.

Thanks for the help.