Scite Edit With Vim
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SciTE has several weakness, a column block editing feature is one of them. I'm using Vim if I need this feature. Vim has many powerful editing features, so I'm using Vim as a second editor of SciTE with this simple lua script SciteEditWithVim. 

-- Edit with Vim as an external editor of SciTE

-- 2013.03.31 by lee.sheen at gmail dot com



scite_Command {

  'Edit with Vim|EditWithVim|Alt+Shift+V',

}



function CurrentLine ()

  return editor:LineFromPosition(editor.CurrentPos) + 1

end



function EditWithVim ()

  local gvim_exe = 'C:/"Program Files"/Vim/vim73/gvim.exe'

  local cur_file_path = props['FilePath']

  local current_line = CurrentLine()

  os.execute("start " .. gvim_exe .. " " .. cur_file_path .. " +" .. current_line)

end

Thought and suggestion: Is it possible to catch the state of os.execute - and when this editing job in vim is done, scite will automatically open the file again (after vim is closed)?

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Last edited September 5, 2013 4:23 pm GMT (diff)