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EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python REPL

by philipbjorge on 3/18/13, 4:08 PM with 17 comments

• by lbolla on 3/18/13, 4:24 PM

  IPython has this feature baked in the magic %ed command [1].

  [1]: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/config/editors.html

• by pixelmonkey on 3/18/13, 5:34 PM

  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

• by bitwize on 3/18/13, 6:19 PM

  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

• by JulianWasTaken on 3/18/13, 4:29 PM

  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).

• by ashayh on 3/18/13, 9:10 PM

  For Ruby IRB, there is interactive editor: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/running-vim-within-irb/

• by jlgreco on 3/18/13, 4:18 PM

  I could be mistaken, but isn't this a GNU Readline feature?

  Neat regardless.

• by Glench on 3/18/13, 4:38 PM

  oh my god this is awesome