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I'm playing a game that has a scripting language. It has a button to open the scripts in external editor. You can set the command that will trigger the editor from within the game's interface.

/usr/bin/X11/gvim opens the scripts in gvim

now what I would like to know is, if it's doable, to open the scripts in terminal's vim and if instead of opening a new one each time to add tabs to the existing instance. What would be a command to do that?

the way of adding tabs is :tabe filename or from terminal for multiple documents

vim -p file1, file2

I guess there are more that I don't know, I hope this is doable.

Thanks.

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Yes, this is possible with vim's server mode. Start a vim-server with:

vim --servername somename

Now you can send commands to it with --remote, --remote-send and others.

To achieve what you want, start a server with a known name, send the :tabe commands with:

vim --servername somename --remote-send ':tabe filename<cr>'

Note the same commands work for gvim. If this should work from within another program, you need to start the vim-server prior to any --remote-send commands. The edit command within the program should then be: vim --servername somename --remote-send ':tabe %s<cr>', assuming %s is replaced by the filename to edit.

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  • Ty for your answer, I def learned something from that. But it doesn't seem to work. The problem is that I don't actually know how that external editor command works. E.g why wouldn't open vim in terminal? Even a single instance, it just wont do it. But it will open gvim. This is not kewl. Plus I don't know if it can accept command line arguments. This really bothers me, multiple windows are never good.
    – Not Amused
    Dec 4, 2012 at 20:23
  • @DeusDeceit: IIUYC, you should first start the vim-server outside the program that will call vim --remote-send. See the added note above.
    – Thor
    Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38

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