Is it possible to redirect vim input?

[GoTouch Go]

Hi there,

I am looking to make vim work with gdb in an easy way I like. I looked around and does not seem to see a solution. There is gdbmgr but that means I still need to type in gdb command which is too long.

What I prefer is to let vim get input from my program, which sends editing input to vim so as to show a file, go to specific line, etc. This way I can press Fn hot keys, send commands to gdb, and move the cursor in vim as well. I can still edit in vim, and save the change, recompile and restart gdb.

So what I am looking to is basically sending input to vim through a pipe. Do you know a way to do so? vim probably does not get input from STDIN because reading from STDIN cannot respond to individual key strokes.

Thanks for any clue.

[Steve B]

That's not what you asked for but in case of, cgdb is an ncurses
interface to GDB modeled after Vim.
https://cgdb.github.io/

Steve

[Benji Fisher]

Also not what you asked for, but the client-server functionality was designed for this sort of thing.  Have you read

:help remote.txt

yet?

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HTH

Benji Fisher 

[Ben Fritz]

If you are writing some sort of toplevel command program, you can send commands to Vim using the "netbeans" interface. From :help netbeans-intro:

> The NetBeans interface was initially developed to integrate Vim into the
> NetBeans Java IDE, using the external editor plugin. This NetBeans plugin no
> longer exists for recent versions of NetBeans but the protocol was developed
> in such a way that any IDE can use it to integrate Vim.

> The NetBeans protocol of Vim is a text based communication protocol, over a
> classical TCP socket. There is no dependency on Java or NetBeans. Any language
> or environment providing a socket interface can control Vim using this
> protocol. There are existing implementations in C, C++, Python and Java. The
> name NetBeans is kept today for historical reasons.

[Jacek Czaja]

Hi I use GDB from Vim, using following plugin:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4582

[GoTouch Go]

Thanks all. Just took a quick look at clientserver (remote.txt) and netbeans.txt which give a lot info about this kind of integration of vim.

I probably can use them for my goal. I just want to make gdb easier to use, maybe spoiled by windows debugger key bindings but it is just so easier than gdb command line.

My motivation is to make it easy to try rust in a more interactive way: type in lines of code, compile (which is quite fast), run / step through it and display variable values and output. This will not support profound use of gdb easily but should be good enough as a start. Obviously this can apply to other languages as well.

[tlux]

On 08/07/15 03:07, Jacek Czaja wrote:
> Hi I use GDB from Vim, using following plugin:
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4582
>
>
>
>

Hi, thank you so much for the above link. I've been looking for
a way to integrate gdb into vim and this plugin is just great!

Regards,
tlux.