seanlong.orgposted on: July 10, 2013
Recently some co-workers have been talking about using SLIME with node.js, SLIME is an Emacs mode for Common Lisp development, me being the Vim guy went out looking for a Vim version. What I found was vim-slime by Jonathan Palardy which was originally introduced here. Vim-slime relies on the GNU screen command for the heavy lifting, I'm not too familiar with screen and stumbled through the first time, to save others the trouble I'm posting my simple usage here.
Install screen (I use a Debian based Linux distro)
sudo apt-get install screen
Install vim-slime (I use the pathogen, so this is easy)
git clone git://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime.git ~/.vim/bundle/vim-slime
Now to use vim-slime start a screen session called slime
$ screen -S slime
split the window
CTRL-a SHIFT-S
make a new window withing screen
CTRL-a CTRL-c
switch to the bottom screen
CTRL-a tab
switch the bottom screen to the new window
CTRL-a CTRL-a
now we have a new shell, start whatever REPL you want (python, irb, use bash, etc)
$ python
in screen switch back to the top screen
CTRL-a tab
start your editor
$ vim
in vim write some code for the REPL and select. to send to REPL use
CTRL-c CTRL-c
the first time you will be prompted for a screen session name and window name (since we did not name the window use 0)
slime
0
now use CTRL-c CTRL-c to evaluate any selected text CTRL-c v can be used to reset the session name and window used by vim-slime.
