headlessvim 0.0.2

programmable Vim, no need of +clientserver!

Introduction

headlessvim makes Vim programmable to support developping Vim plugins.

The most distinctive characteristic is, headlessvim NEVER needs +clientserver feature.

Also, headlessvim is fully compatible among Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4.

Install

The good old setup.py

python setup.py install

Examples

A simple example is here:

>>> import headlessvim
>>> with headlessvim.open() as vim:
...    vim.echo('"spam"') # make sure to quote bare words
...
'spam'
>>> import os
>>> env = dict(os.environ, LANG='C')
>>> with headlessvim.open(executable='/usr/bin/vim', args='-N -u /etc/vim/vimrc', env=env):
...    vim.send_keys('iham\033')
...    vim.display_lines()[0].strip()
...
'ham'

Integrating to unittest:

import unittest
import headlessvim

class TestVimPlugin(unittest.TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.vim = headlessvim.open()

    def tearDown(self):
        self.vim.close()

    def testSomeFeature(self):
        res = self.vim.echo('"ham egg"')
        self.assertEqual(res, 'ham egg')

Testing

The unit test requires pytest module.

Execute:

python setup.py test

License

The MIT License.

See LICENSE.txt for more information.