Vim-iterm2-start

Dispatch a task for iTerm2 in MacVim, used for async command line task (eg: git push and unite tests)

It works much like vim-dispatch, the difference is it's works (only) with MacVim, iTerm2 latest and fish shell, in order to keep it quite simple. The reason I made this is I found changing the code of vim-dispatch is quite hard, and it doesn't support iTerm2 > 2.9

Requirement:

• MacVim 7.3+
• iTerm2 > 2.9 currently in beta test (latest lightly build is preferred)
• fish shell (otherwise you will need change the code)
• Knowledge of command line tools

Update

• notification enabled, looks like:

Command

• ItermStart[!] [options] {command}

  Start task in current session of iTerm2, when prefix with !, not foucs the iTerm window

  • -dir=... run command in given directory
  • -title=... set label for iTerm2
  • -no-wait disable the default prompt of press enter to continue on command error

• ItermStartTab[!] [options] {command}

  Start task in a new tab session of iTerm2, options is the same as ItermStart command

  NOTE: iTerm2 version > Build 2.9.20160103-nightly is required to make iTerm2 run job at background corrently

Global varialbes

• g:iterm_start_profile is used for control the profile used by ItermStartTab, you can crate a profile called fish that use fish shell, and config ItermStartTab to use fish shell by add:

  let g:iterm_start_profile = 'fish'

  in your .vimrc

• let g:iterm_start_enable=1 would enable Mac notification on command success. support growl and terminal-notifier

Intergration

If you use vim-test, you can make your test run in background by adding below lines to your .vimrc:

function! StartTest(cmd)
  execute 'ItermStartTab! ' . a:cmd
endfunction

let g:test#custom_strategies = {'start': function('StartTest')}
let g:test#strategy = 'start'

Send message back to MacVim

You can make use of the vim feature clientserver to send message back to your MacVim, here is a example of creating a filter program that parse output of mocha and fill the quickfix of MacVim

https://gist.github.com/chemzqm/fd1313206c182884efbc

So you can jump to error location directly in your MacVim.

License

MIT