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gVim/Vim support in uVision3?

Carles Cufi

Hi there,

I was wondering if by any chance there is some kind of support to integrate Vim or gVim with the uVision3 IDE. You can do it with VS using the VisVim DLL, but I wonder if this could somehow be reused for uVision3?

Any insight appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Carles

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  • 0 in reply to edPer Westermark

    Hi there,

    Thanks for your reply.

    As you explain, vim and gVim are version of the VI classic UNIX editor. There is a plugin DLL for Visual Studio that allows to replace the default VS editor with gVim (the graphical version of VI) and therefore use it to edit all text within the IDE.
    My question was whether the uVision3 IDE allows such plugins and further whether one exists. As mentioned before the goal here is to use VI *within* uVision3 without having to leave the IDE at all.
    Another possibility for anyone wanting to edit their code with VI would be not to use the IDE at all and use a command-line tool to compile after editing. I assume this is possible (although I am new to uVision3 and therefore lack the knowledge to work this way for now) and it may indeed be the only solution for me if I want to edit my files using VI and compile with uVision3's compilers.

    Carles

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  • 0 in reply to edPer Westermark

    Hi there,

    Thanks for your reply.

    As you explain, vim and gVim are version of the VI classic UNIX editor. There is a plugin DLL for Visual Studio that allows to replace the default VS editor with gVim (the graphical version of VI) and therefore use it to edit all text within the IDE.
    My question was whether the uVision3 IDE allows such plugins and further whether one exists. As mentioned before the goal here is to use VI *within* uVision3 without having to leave the IDE at all.
    Another possibility for anyone wanting to edit their code with VI would be not to use the IDE at all and use a command-line tool to compile after editing. I assume this is possible (although I am new to uVision3 and therefore lack the knowledge to work this way for now) and it may indeed be the only solution for me if I want to edit my files using VI and compile with uVision3's compilers.

    Carles

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  • 0 in reply to Carles Cufi

    AFAIK, it does not.

    "Another possibility for anyone wanting to edit their code with VI would be not to use the IDE at all and use a command-line tool to compile after editing"

    Yes, of course.
    (that's what Erik does)

    You could also use Vim for your editing, and uVision just as a build/debug tool...

    BTW: you do realise that uVision-3 has now been superseded by uVision-4 - don't you...?

  • 0 in reply to Andy Neil

    >You could also use Vim for your editing, and uVision >just as a build/debug tool...

    Yes, but that would require me to have uVision open, and I wanted to avoid the IDE side of things as much as possible. It's still an option though.

    >BTW: you do realise that uVision-3 has now been >superseded by uVision-4 - don't you...?

    I do realise that and in fact I have just installed uVision-4 in my computer. From your later response I assume this doesn't add integration for external editors, but I will be using uVision-4's compilers.

    Thanks!

    Carles