"Claus Reinke"
I use emacs exclusively for hacking Haskell, but I wanted to see if it's possible to connect to the shim server-process from vim and started working on omnicompletion: http://shim.haskellco.de/trac/attachment/wiki/ScreenShots/vim-shim.png http://shim.haskellco.de/trac/wiki/ShimVim http://darcsweb.haskellco.de/darcsweb.cgi?r=shim;a=tree;f=/vim I don't think I will spend much more time working on this, but if anyone wants to try it out or improve it, I would be happy to answer questions and review patches.
thanks, i too had been wondering about the "vim and" part of shim, especially about the interprocess communication. you're using vim's python embedding for that, but many vim users won't have python.
I'm not sure if it's possible to use the vim scripting language for that, but i used the python embedding so that I could base everything on the python omnicompletion.
more importantly: is that python solution (using unix sockets portable, ie, would it work for windows vim users if they were asked to install python for that purpose?
I don't think it's portable, but Tim Newsham added support for TCP sockets to the haskell and emacs side and it should be pretty easy to adapt the python vim script. Of course, you have to be careful with TCP since you can't use file permissions to make sure that nobody else connects to the socket. Thanks, Benedikt