Re: Vim script support of socket access or IPC (inter-process communication) ?

On 15/12/09 03:30, pansz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For some reason I need to access some local service within vim, this can
> be Unix socket (d-bus, x message, etc.) or TCP socket (http, ftp, etc.).
>
> A typical example is an IM engine, which can provide service to both XIM
> and vimim. The engine may need a relatively long start-up time to build
> the cache and it only need to start once, while vim should start-up very
> fast and run many times. Separate them may be a good idea.
>
> I found nothing related to socket access or IPC feature in vim script so
> I cannot do that from within vim script. Seek for python or perl support
> is not an option here, since we should not add unnecessary dependency to
> end-users.
>
> Adding IPC support seems no problem for vim design philosophy, since
> this enables vim interact with other applications better, instead of
> incorporating other application features into vim itself.
>
> Any hints?
>

Vim already includes (if compiled with the proper features) two
mechanisms for inter-process communication:

- client-server operation (on both X11 and Windows)
:help remote.txt
- OLE (Windows only)
:help if_ole.txt

Best regards,
Tony.
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