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List:       vim-mac
Subject:    Re: Vim on Mac: What's NeXT? ;)
From:       Dany St-Amant <dany.stamant () sympatico ! ca>
Date:       2001-11-07 12:14:05
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Le Mercredi 7 novembre 2001, à 12:32 , gmark@svs.com a écrit :

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>> -Drop to shell?
>>   (Huh? this currently work on my development stream can't believe it)
> I don't understand that comment, but having VIM be able to drop to
> the shell (preferably the user-specified shell (ksh, bash, csh, 
> whatever's
> running) would be excellent. Being able to actually run a shell command
> on a text buffer or file would be even better, doing it from VIM in a 
> GUI
> environment would likely attract a LOT of attention, since it would give
> IMMEDIATE shell access from a GUI editor!

My comment was live feedback ;). I did a quick :!sh and strangely, I got 
a shell.
As I didn't do any change (at least can't remember) in that area since 
the
"Patch for shell.." I shipped on the 31st of October. This should be 
working since then.
I didn't try the binary that Benji put on is iDisk, 
http://homepage.mac.com/fisherbb/
(but I think he included that patch and compiled it with -DMACOS_X_UNIX
(even though the patch is not a official vim patch as I did't got time 
to look
at the type ahead possible bug.

> Everything else pales after the shell stuff. It'd be a BIG draw for
> OSX users everywhere.
>
> G. Mark Stewart
>
Dany

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