urxv-buffer2vim

This project provides a urxvt extension to open the current buffer in vim. (I'm sure it can easily be adapted to use emacs or other editors).
It was inspired by reactivity vim part.

Once triggered, urxvt will create a temp file or a pipe and launch a new urxvt client with vim. After that, the terminal continues available.

Getting Started

1. Copy the buffer2vim perl script in ~/.urxvt/ext
2. Enable it in .Xresources:

   URxvt.perl-ext-common:      ...,buffer2vim
   URxvt.keysym.C-s:           perl:buffer2vim:vim_last
   URxvt.keysym.C-S:           perl:buffer2vim:vim
   urxvt.buffer2vim.lastrows:  3000
   

   and reload the file: $ [[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources
3. Launch $ urxvt

Configuration

The configuration is done through .Xresources, it supports the following keys:

! Number of rows to show with vim_last, default 1024:
urxvt.buffer2vim.lastrows: POSITIVE INT
! If you want to use temp files or a pipe to feed vim, default 'file':
urxvt.buffer2vim.tmpfiletype: 'file' | 'pipe'

With the configuration from the previous section you can use Ctrl+S to show only the last 3000 lines in VIM or Ctrl+Shift+S to show the whole buffer.

Authors

• Jose M Perez Ramos - Kuroneer

License

This project is released under the MIT License. Check LICENSE for more information.