From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-04T08:14:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Scriptable text editor with Ruby?

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Dolazy wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> Vim and emacs are text editor that can be scripted using internal
> script languages. I'm thinking of writing a platform independent text
> editor myself that uses the ruby language for executing scripts. The
> host application would be written in C++ (+Qt) and it would somehow be
> able to interact with ruby.
>
> I think there are basically two ways of implementing this interaction:
> - using IPC
> - command line interaction (host executes the ruby script with
> parameters and catches the output)

- using vim

it already does all this!  check out the man pages.

regards.

-a
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