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EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by philipbjorge »

ben0x539 wrote: post #8
philipbjorge wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is different because I'm full on opening an instance of vim. (I didn't know about GNU Readline though and it looks awesome - I'll definitely try and work it into a project at some point).

I'm only using GNU readline for my bash prompt, but if I press v it spawns a full-on $EDITOR instance to edit the commandline.

This is awesome (I still have a lot to learn about bash) and effectively what my module does.

Just so others know, you have to put bash in vi mode and press Esc before v (otherwise it's ctrl+x ctrl+e).

set -o vi

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by JulianWasTaken »

philipbjorge wrote: post #10
JulianWasTaken wrote: post #6

Cool. Haven't looked at the code yet, but I wrote: https://github.com/Julian/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/pytho... which does something similar (and is interpreter agnostic as it looks like this is).

Mine's not interpreter agnostic because I had to mess with the stack frames to insert variables into the global context. But yours is able to do that because your importing a top-level edit function while I was pretty set on dynamically creating a vim() method and not having to import a function (just a module). I love how yours lists the globals though! I might just have to bite that feature :).

Oh, yeah, well, importing stuff on interpreter startup is pretty much exactly what $PYTHONSTARTUP is for :).

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by philipbjorge »

JulianWasTaken wrote: post #12
philipbjorge wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine's not interpreter agnostic because I had to mess with the stack frames to insert variables into the global context. But yours is able to do that because your importing a top-level edit function while I was pretty set on dynamically creating a vim() method and not having to import a function (just a module). I love how yours lists the globals though! I might just have to bite that feature :).

Oh, yeah, well, importing stuff on interpreter startup is pretty much exactly what $PYTHONSTARTUP is for :).

And this is why I post code online - to find out the right way to do things. PYTHONSTARTUP is exactly 100% what I was looking for, but didn't know existed.

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by benatkin »

lbolla wrote: post #4

IPython has this feature baked in the magic %ed command [1]. [1]: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/config/editors.html

Yes, and to edit the last thing you typed, you can run %ed _. When you exit %ed it runs the code and then returns the code as a string.

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by jlgreco »

philipbjorge wrote: post #11
ben0x539 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm only using GNU readline for my bash prompt, but if I press v it spawns a full-on $EDITOR instance to edit the commandline.

This is awesome (I still have a lot to learn about bash) and effectively what my module does. Just so others know, you have to put bash in vi mode and press Esc before v (otherwise it's ctrl+x ctrl+e). set -o vi

Aye, looks like I was wrong. This is a feature that bash has, not Readline. (in bash 4.2: bashline.c:858)

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by pixelmonkey »

IPython can also be run as a server (ipython kernel[1]) and then connected to via a vim plugin called vim-ipython [2]. This means you can do the other direction: evaluate a vim buffer in a running IPython session, and then connect to that IPython session to actually use the code you wrote in vim.

See:

[1] http://wiki.ipython.org/Cookbook/Connecting_to_a_remote_kern...

[2] https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython

Re: EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

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Post by bitwize »

Nice. Reminds me of a feature I have in Glass Table[0]:

Define a procedure, macro, or record type called foo:

    (define (foo x) ...)
Now say:

    ,(edit foo)
Your definition appears in the editor of your choice. (Try running GT within Emacs and setting your EDITOR to "emacsclient".) Make changes; provided no errors occurred (like missing parens) the changes take effect when you save and quit.

It's a nice little workflow; if you squint, it almost feels like a CADR...

[0] https://github.com/bitwize/glasstable

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