Intergating program into Shell - VI editor

[MelbourneBen]

Hi All,

Basically I want to be able to launch VIM (VI editor) from the shell like you would in unix. So for example if I have a text file I want to view I want to be able to just type vim workbench:misc/text.txt

Is there a way I can intergrate Vim into the shell for this to work?

Cheers

Ben

[squidbass]

Hello mate,

Yes it's straightforward...if you installed Vi according to the docs you should have a VIM: assign..so you just type VIM:vim workbench:misc/text.txt in your shell. You may want to consider installing Vinced which is soups up the basic shell (e.g. ansi colors).

G'day

[Mark]

You can always add a shell alias to the s:Shell-Startup script that will call your editor from its real path using whatever alias you choose.

So, using the VIM: assign mentioned by squidbass for example:

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Alias vi vim:vim



Or by using its full path, say it's "Work:Productivity/Vim/vim"

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Alias vi "Work:Productivity/vim/vim"



Now, to edit that text file, you would simply type "vi workbench:misc/text.txt" in your shell.

[DBAlex]

You can always add a shell alias to the s:Shell-Startup script that will call your editor from its real path using whatever alias you choose.

So, using the VIM: assign mentioned by squidbass for example:

Code: [Select]

Alias vi vim:vim


Or by using its full path, say it's "Work:Productivity/Vim/vim"

Code: [Select]

Alias vi "Work:Productivity/vim/vim"


Now, to edit that text file, you would simply type "vi workbench:misc/text.txt" in your shell.

Yeah I always use shell aliases... just like UNIX hehe (don't tell anyone that though)

I used to have one setup for Python too, so I can just launch Python scripts easily. Maybe I had that or the Python dir was part of where AOS looks for programs... it's PATH, can't remember how to set that though...

EDIT: I think it's something like:

path add vim:vim

[MelbourneBen]

Thanks for your help, will give that a try.