created by

Suresh Govindachar

script type

utility

description

____________________________________________________________ Overview The plugin eui_vim concerns the use of a text editor as the user interface to applications:  the "Editable User Interface". It presents an alternative to incorporating applications into the text editor as a tightly bound, monolithic product and to resisting any integration of the text-editor with other applications for non-text-editing functions.   The conceptualization of the ''Editable User Interface'' helps define and delimit the role of the text editor in facilitating the use of diverse applications.  In such a role, the text editor is delimited to being an interface only, i.e., in regard to support of non-text-editing tasks, it is delimited to   * rendering user input,   * transferring user commands and data to the external application,   * responding to (text-editing) commands from the external application and   * rendering the external application's output to the user.   (In the above, rendering refers to display of text.) As a specific example of the abstraction "Editable User Interface", the code presented here, eui_vim.vim and eui_vim.pl illustrate how one can use the Vim editor as an user interface to other applications. ____________________________________________________________ Value Most of the value of this plugin lies in the ideas expounded in eui_vim.txt or in http://www.sonic.net/~suresh/eui/ (and, perhaps, by way of the comments in the .vim and .pl code). ____________________________________________________________ Table of Contents of eui_vim.txt Introduction   Graphical, Keyboard and Pseudo-keyboard User Interfaces   Editable User Interface     The Text Editor     The PC as a Product Users' Guide   Preliminaries     System Requirements     Download     Installation   Tutorial     :EUIProcess foo     :EUIProcess list     :EUIProcess demo_plot     How the transfers are done       Format of the fifo-file     :EUIProcess quit     Automatic clean-up Example Applications   VimPuppy   Vimms Author Claims Copyright Disclaimer

install details

____________________________________________________________ System Requirements Eui_vim has been tested on Windows 98 with the ''Big version with GUI'' Vim 6.2 (requires +clientserver, but perl support is not required).  It is unlikely to work as-is on unix (the port to unix is likely to be simpler). ____________________________________________________________ Installation Essentially, unzip eui_vim.zip into the vimfiles directory while preserving folder names and regenerate the help-tags.   Unzipping deploys three files:       vimfiles\plugin\eui_vim.vim,     vimfiles\perl\eui_vim.pl     and     vimfiles\doc\eui_vim.txt The help-tags can be regenerated, for example, by executing ":helptags $vim\vimfiles\doc" from within vim. In systems that don't have perl, eui_vim.pl can be replaced by a self-contained executable, eui_vim.exe available from the author.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
eui_vim.zip	1.01Edit	2004-02-10	6.0	Suresh Govindachar	Initial upload

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