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0 pointsjoemi9y ago0 comments

That feels like the realm of a plugin, IMO. (I don't know enough to know whether or not that type of thing could be done via plugin, though.)

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flukus9y ago

With the new async support it should be relatively simple, weekend project simple for a basic implementation.

JoshTriplett9y ago

Depends on how you implement it. neovim's implementation uses libvterm, which seems preferable to a from-scratch terminal implementation. Implementing a fully capable terminal emulator from scratch definitely isn't a weekend project.

neovim's approach links libvterm in via C. You could potentially do so via python and ctypes instead, but then you have to count on having a vim compiled with Python support.

flukus9y ago

I was thinking I'd just start sh/cmd in a process and use stdin/stdout. The api even allows for automatically sending appended lines to stdin.

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flukus9y ago

With the new async support it should be relatively simple, weekend project simple for a basic implementation.

JoshTriplett9y ago

neovim's approach links libvterm in via C. You could potentially do so via python and ctypes instead, but then you have to count on having a vim compiled with Python support.

flukus9y ago

I was thinking I'd just start sh/cmd in a process and use stdin/stdout. The api even allows for automatically sending appended lines to stdin.

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