Vim references

http://vim.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/quickref.html

http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=422

remotesplit for cscope revisited

I've decided to go with a remote tactic that's slightly more reliable than my previous tactic: Name the gvim server by the contents of the $DISPLAY variable. I have side-by-side PCs with their own X-servers, so I want to send the file to the gvim server that is outputting the same place as my cscope session. I now grep the $DISPLAY out of the gvim server list, to determing whether I am going to set up a new server or use an existing one.

My remotesplit:

gvim --serverlist | grep -i "$DISPLAY" 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
   gvim --servername $DISPLAY $*
else
   gvim --remote-send "<ESC>:sp $CSCOPE_ROOT/$2<CR>:0<CR>:$1<CR>:-1<CR>" 2>/dev/null
fi

remotesplit for cscope

On a multiuser environment, I added the 'ps -fu' bit to detect a gvim session, slightly more fool-resistant than just checking the result code of the --remote-send call.

My remotesplit:

ps -fu $LOGNAME | grep -v grep | grep gvim 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
   gvim $*
else
   gvim --remote-send "<ESC>:sp $CSCOPE_ROOT/$2<CR>:0<CR>:$1<CR>:-1<CR>" 2>/dev/null
fi

gvim-specific

• :menu MENUBARITEM.DROPDOWNITEM [keystrokes go here] - Appends/updates a drop-down menu, MENUBARITEM, with DROPDOWNITEM as the last menu selection. When this menu is selected, the keystrokes specified at the end are entered.
  
• :hi Search guibg=LightGreen - change background for search highlighting.
  

Command line options

• -o N - open N windows, or as many windows as file arguments passed (open windows as splits within the same session)