From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T21:35:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Need help finding decent IDE/development environment for Windows

On 9/7/05, Doug Kearns <dougkearns@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:25:20AM +0900, Joe Van Dyk wrote:
> > On 9/7/05, BearItAll <bearitall@rassler.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:17:24 -0700, Paul Dix wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > > Then you write a function, save :w, test in the console or browser you
> > > have open. Or if its a function/class you can test stand alone, then send
> > > it directly to ruby/php or what ever. ':w !ruby' you can't get much more
> > > immediate feedback than that. No opening and closing Windows or dialogues.
> >
> > Yeah, I generally have mappings like
> > :wall<CR>:!ruby %<CR>
> >
> > Which will save all open files and run the current file.
> 
> You both might like to have a look at the compiler plugin which will run
> the given file and allow you to jump to the location of any resulting
> syntax errors, exceptions etc.
> 
> :compiler ruby
> :make %

I actually looked into that for the first time yesterday.

I think I created a mapping like
:map <F6>:wall!<CR>:mak % \| :cwin<CR>

saves the files, runs make, and displays an error window at the bottom
there. Then I can skip around to all the places that have exceptions. 
Pretty nifty.