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Using vim inside irb

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This will change my life :)

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

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.

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

FYI the upstream has it done already.

Someone in the comments mentions Conque (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.

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

I found these with a quick search: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsScreencasts

That must have been a very quick search because that link is in my post :)

Lesson learned: read two times before posting if you're just awakened. Sorry about that.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/140336/where-can-i-find-a... has a few, but mostly duplicates of emacswiki's.

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.

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

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

Life-changing, thank you :)

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.

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