2002-03-11
by earl, 8291 days ago
transparent integration between vanilla and VIM
[ brought to you by rainman tsr and earl ]
quick summary: the picture shows a vanilla posting (called a snip) beeing remotely-edited in my favorite editor, the VIM. vanilla is running on a server far away, the editor runs on my local desktop. this was inspired by the maxime: editing in a browser is cool, editing in a good editor is even cooler.
if one can get the latter without sacrificing the advantages of the first, i'd call this a "win-win". the glueing is done via XML-RPC using rebXR for REBOL.
this remote-editing thingie (vanilla-vim) was implemented by the great rainman tsr. w/o his rapid-devel skills, there would be no vanilla-vim today.
the (not so) gory details: yep, vanilla-vim is the beasts name. after henso is hard-working on augmenting moz's composer with xml-rpc, time seems right to show vanilla-vim. brain-dead simple but really cool, transparent integration between VIM and vanilla.
using vanilla-vim, one can simply edit a snip in a vanilla space by typing
:e vanilla://lcom/chris:w). vanilla-vim transparently enables this fun :)it still has its rough edges, but it is another powerful proof of concept.
technical pornography: vanilla-vim is a quite simple multi-level glueing thing. vim6 brought the "netrw" capabilities, which enables "transparent" editing over a network.
the scenario is quite simple: "netrw" allows plugins to register for handling certain url schemes. of course there are plugins ready to handle http://, scp:// and all the other common stuff. but by registering a new url-scheme, one is able to glue VIM to other systems.
the hard work is done by external tools. the vim netrw lib simply dispatches the url schemes to a plugin and the plugin normally calls the right external tool (eg.
:e scp://user@host/path/to/filein vanilla-vim's case, the external tool is a rebol script which consists of two major parts:
it maps space-shortcuts (esa) to URLs for their according xmlrpc interface (shhhh ;) and it is able to GET and PUT a snip from resp. to a space (via XML-RPC of course).
on the server side lives the xmlrpc space accessor which maps xmlrpc calls to calls to the local vanilla space library.
that's all there is, but it is fun already :)
vanilla-vim: designed by earl, written by rainman tsr
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