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vimux
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preservim / vimux

vimux

easily interact with tmux from vim

5Distinct people
5Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
2.3KGitHub stars
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easily interact with tmux from vim

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For anyone using tmux and vim, I recommend having a look at vimux (https://github.com/benmills/vimux). It lets you control your tmux pane from within vim. I use two tmux…

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-04-14 22:56:24 UTC to 2013-12-15 19:35:30 UTC.

012012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsFeb 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2013

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Apr 20122012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC110
May 20122012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20122012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Brief overview of the landscape: For clojure/clojure-py/clojurescript, I start out with vim-sexp[0] (for vim motions over sexpressions; some people prefer the more common paredit.vim[1]), rainbow-parenthesis.vim[2], and vim-clojure-static[3] (for indention rules, syntax highlighting, etc). You'll want those regardless of which way you use to interact with Clojure. On top of that, you probably want some way to access a REPL. The top contenders seem to be: fireplace[4] (NREPL-based quasi-repl) slimv[5] (SLIME for CL, Clojure, Schemes, etc) vimux[6]/tslime[7] (copies from vim registers to a tmux/screen window where you presumably run lein repl or something) fireplace works pretty well. In theory, it can pick up the rest of the clojure world's nrepl middleware for advanced features. In practice, nobody seems to be doing this. I haven't looke
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d into the codebase to figure out how to add support for various nrepl middleware, but it should be possible. slimv doesn't seem to be as popular in Clojure land. Most new development is based around nrepl, but you get some (not all) of its functionality thanks to ritz[8] being abstracted. I use vimux and normal vim shortcuts/macros to abstract my workflow. I like being able to handle cljs and clj in the same manner that I handle Python, Hy, Perl, and JavaScript. This is probably the route that requires the most vim knowledge and comfort with programming your lisp environment to make work. [0] - https://github.com/guns/vim-sexp [1] - https://github.com/vim-scripts/paredit.vim [2] - https://github.com/kien/rainbow_parentheses.vim [3] - https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-static [4] - https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace [5] - https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv [6] - https://github.com/benmills/vimux [7] - https://github.com/kikijump/tslime.vim [8] - https://github.com/pallet/ritz
In Ask HN: How to get started with a modern Lisp
AlexLegg·Feb 19, 2013Recommendation phrase
For anyone using tmux and vim, I recommend having a look at vimux (https://github.com/benmills/vimux). It lets you control your tmux pane from within vim. I use two tmux windows, one of each of my screens. One is code and the other runs `make && ./test blah blah` whenever I hit F5 in vim. To get vimux to use windows (as opposed to just panes) there's a fork under pull requests (disclaimer: I wrote it).
In Vim After 11 Years
I recently "declared vim bankruptcy" and rebuilt my vimrc from scratch. I want a full-featured vim, but I want to keep it responsive. There are many fancy presets out there https://github.com/skwp/dotfiles https://github.com/carlhuda/janus https://github.com/spf13/spf13-vim https://github.com/vgod/vimrc but they freak me out. They turn vim into a singing, dancing, syntax/spell checking, indexing, buffer Whack-a-mole. My philosophy is that vim shouldn't do anything behind your back, but it should do great things if you ask. * Jumping to definitions * Finding all uses of a symbol in a repo * Running things + A test + Code in a repl * Git blame, diff * Summarizing methods in open file * Navigating my (rails) app When putting this together, I found Vundle to be the easiest package manager. Just specify any desired
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vim plugin github repos in your vimrc and let the :BundleInstall, :BundleClean etc commands do the rest. I used the standard plugins for most of the stated objectives, but there are places where I found some tricks. The coolest trick is running external programs without locking vim. You can send commands and selections to a tmux terminal using Vimux: https://github.com/benmills/vimux After wrangling with running vim under tmux, I discovered that the vimux plugin works in MacVim too when tmux is running alongside. The thing I run most often is tests. In Rubyland people advise using Guard, which runs tests automatically when test files change. However this goes against my "don't do things behind my back" philosophy. Vim-turbux is more my taste. It extends vimux to run cucumber and rspec tests with the press of a key: https://github.com/jgdavey/vim-turbux The next area where most megadotfile presets are lacking is finding the uses of code. Finding code definition is pretty well handled by exuberant-ctags and vim-rails, but finding code uses is trickier. The cscope utility does this, but its language support is limited from what I could tell. Another contender is GNU global. Its setup is...interesting: http://simple-and-basic.com/2008/10/using-rtags-ang-gtags-fo... I couldn't get it working and the GTAGS files it generates cluttered my repos. I cheated and just mapped a key to do :Ggrep (git-fugitive) on the current word. While cscope or global would give the finest results, a massive grep comes close. Let me know, anyone, if you've gotten the tagging systems working better. My work in progress is here: https://github.com/begriffs/dotfiles I'd appreciate any criticism; I have lots to learn.
In Plugins you should put in your vimrc

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