From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T14:17:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea for testing ruvi

On Tuesday, August 17, 2004, 3:05:59 PM, Phil wrote:

> In article <412184C3.8010506@hypermetrics.com>,
> Hal Fulton  <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>I'd really like to have a vim-like editor scriptable in
>>Ruby, so I hope to contribute test cases at the very least.
>>

> I thought that vim itself was scriptable in Ruby (you have to build it
> with some special option, I believe - I haven't tried it).  I seem to
> recall that there was an article in Linux Magazine or Linux Journal a
> year or two ago about this...

Yeah, it's pretty limited, though.  It doesn't expose any deep vim
internals, just windows and buffers.  So you can insert text, etc.

Ultimately, it's a *little* bit more powerful than an external Ruby
program, I think.

You could probably do something useful with it, but noone seems to be
doing so.

Gavin