Re: Diff mode via Tabs

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 7:47:58 AM UTC-5, David Fishburn wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The problem with both --remote-expr and --remote-send is if that Vim instance is not already running, you get an error:
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> $ gvim.exe --servername DIFF --remote-send "echo 1"
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> This one tells me the vim instance DIFF isn't running (which it isn't).
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> $ gvim.exe --servername DIFF --remote-expr "echo 1"
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> Same with this one.
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> That means someone must manually start up the Vim instance ahead of time.
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Oh, I missed that.

I used two separate "send to" entries for my solution, for that very reason. I'm not sure whether that works for you.

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> If you do the following:
> gvim.exe --servername DIFF
> gvim.exe --servername DIFF
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> You get two instances of Vim running with server names of:
> DIFF
> DIFF1
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> So in the 2nd case, my plugin notices we are not in the correct instance and sends the files over to the first instance.
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> That is why I cannot allow the DIFF1 instance to open the files, since they will be edited in the DIFF instance.
> But yet I want the argument list that DIFF1 was started with, so I know which files to send over to the DIFF instance.
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What about if the second instance closes the files before sending them to the other instance? Or if your plugin opens without a swap file until it knows it is the correct instance?

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