From: Dmitry Borodaenko <d.borodaenko@...>
Date: 2002-08-28T01:09:51+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby+vim experts: how powerful is vim? please help.

We can try to do that, if it is at all possible (I'm not sure that Vim
has enough hooks to do exactly what you want). Please send me all info
you find relevant, we will try to experiment here. How much time do you
have for that?

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:41:33PM +0900, Tom Sawyer wrote:
 TS> i have a really important question to ask regarding vim's power to be
 TS> programmed. i'm under a heavy deadline and i don't have the time to
 TS> build nice GUI forms for every one of my db record types. so i'm looking
 TS> at vim as a possible alternative.
 TS> 
 TS> essentially data is pulled from my database, formated into yaml, and
 TS> presented to the user in vim. the user edits the yaml file, saves and
 TS> exits vim, and the file is ported back into the database. i have that
 TS> much working. very cool.
 TS> 
 TS> but what i need to do is build a vim extention using ruby for each
 TS> record type. the extensions need to provide the following:
 TS> 
 TS> * prevent the user from editing a line based on the field name at the
 TS> beginning of the line.
 TS>   
 TS> * again, based on the field name at the beginning of the line, be able
 TS> to do phrase (not just word) completions from a list of possibilites
 TS> pulled from a lookup table in the database.
 TS> 
 TS> * sort blocks of text based on a piece of text with it, for exmaple:
 TS> 
 TS>       items:
 TS>         - name: Product 1
 TS>           price: 10.50
 TS>         - name: Product 2
 TS>           price: 8.50
 TS> 
 TS>   resorted to:
 TS> 
 TS>       items:
 TS>         - name: Product 2
 TS>           price: 8.50
 TS>         - name: Product 1
 TS>           price: 10.50
 TS> 
 TS> there are probably a few other things, but if the above can be done then
 TS> vim will do the job.
 TS> 
 TS> finally, i may outsource the writing of some or all of these vim
 TS> extensions. does anyone want a little contract work?
 TS> 
 TS> thanks,
 TS> ~tom (transami)
 TS> 
 TS> (p.s. the contract work could lead to more work and bigger $ if one was
 TS> interested)