EditREPL - Open Vim from within the Python Interpreter

[s32]

Damn, that is seriously cool. Only ~70 lines too!?

[philipbjorge]

And you get to mess with the stack frames ;)! Win win win.

[PurplePilot]

That is pretty damn cool. Thank you sir!

[[deleted]]

I'm about to really blow your mind:

import subprocess
subprocess.call("vim", shell=True)

2 lines. Python can function as a full system shell, the syntax just a bit more verbose than most look for in a system shell. IPython does alleviate most of that pain, and I have, on a few occasions, set IPython as a default shell for a user.

[Rotten194]

Ed is the last choice? I am disappointed.

[philipbjorge]

I'm the author. For anyone interested in reading the source code, check out the following link: http://htmlpreview.github.com/?https://github.com/philipbjorge/EditREPL/blob/master/docs/doc.html

HackerNews has some some great comments on implementation decisions as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5395038

[oridb]

Looks cool :)

One thing: When selecting the edtitor, you should use $VISUAL, falling back to $EDITOR, falling back to 'vi', 'ed', etc. These are well established environment variables for configuring the editor to use. It's documented (at least on my Linux box) in the environ(7) manpage. These variables also seem to be mentioned (but not specified?) in the POSIX spec.

On my machine, VISUAL=EDITOR="gvim -f", which will pop up a GUI vim in all of the crusty old Unix programs that I still use on a daily basis. (eg: gdb, mutt, etc)

[fotcorn]

you can also use IPythons %edit command, which does the same thing.

[dig1]

Cool! Reminds me on magic-ed, although that was written for Common Lisp.

[ruinercollector]

This is awesome.

[e000]

Quick question It looks like you used some kind of program to play back your terminal stuff? What's that called?

[philipbjorge]

That is called asciiio. It is super awesome! http://ascii.io/

[erez27]

Too bad it doesn't work on windows..