vimshell ebuild
Today, I discovered vimshell. Vimshell is an extension to vim that allows the embedding of a full shell into a vim window. It’s great, and works well. I’ve been looking for something like this for a while.
Looking on b.g.o, I find that the gentoo devs have decided not to include vimshell as an option to vim 6.3, seeing as it’s likely to be included in vim 7.0. So, I’ve created an ebuild to patch vim with vimshell.
Just download the tarball, and extract it in your overlay (it extracts to app-editor/vim) and re-emerge vim. That’s all there is to it. Keep in mind, if a newer version of vim comes out, it will replace this version.
Note that vimshell has a bug: If you’re using xterm-256color, it won’t work (the background will be all red, an nothing will show up). The workaround for now is to use xterm as your terminal.
the link http://www.gryniewicz.com/gentoo/vim-vimshell-1.0.tar.gz, for ebuild is broken
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True. 6.3 is ancient, and no vimshell patch has applied for quite a while. I’ve been meaning to try again, but haven’t had the time.