Friday, January 21, 2011

inotify

Hey,
i was trying to use vims :sign to display a hint for errors in code.
Syntastic is quite cool, but it has the disadvantage of having to be
executed from vim, which is slow, and rather useless (due to missing
includepaths, etc). I understand many people resort to calling make from
vim then, but this does entirely not match into my work flow.

Instead i would want vim to pickup some file containing errors, which is
modified by an external process. For that I'd need vim to call a
function when a file has changed, ie, expose inotify. Either that, or
some other method of invoking a function in a running vim instance from
outside (IPC?).

Does anyone already maintain a fork/patch with that functionality?

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