Re: how to execute ranger from gvim

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 5:34:05 AM UTC-5, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> Hi Sepp!
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> On Do, 09 Aug 2012, Sepp Tannhuber wrote:
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> > Dear all,
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> >
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> > I use the following function from the ranger manual:
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> > fun! RangerChooser()
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> > exec "silent !ranger --choosefile=/tmp/chosenfile" . expand("%:p:h")
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> > if filereadable('/tmp/chosenfile')
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> > exec 'edit ' . system('cat /tmp/chosenfile')
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> > call system('rm /tmp/chosenfile')
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> > endif
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> > redraw!
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> > endfun
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> > map ,r :call RangerChooser()<CR>
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> > It is working well with vim.
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> > Is it possible to invoke ranger from gvim as well? If yes how can I change
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> > the above function?
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> For gvim, run ranger by first calling a xterm (or whatever terminal you
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> prefer), e.g. for xterm use something like this:
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I'm curious, why is this necessary? I run console apps from gvim on Windows all the time without explicitly bringing up a cmd.exe shell. Apparently there's some problem running "ranger" directly from gvim, what is it?

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