vim-interact-terminal(REPL)

Interact wtih the terminal, or REPL(Read-Eval-Print Loop), in vim 8.1 especially for Python programming. Theoretically, it can also be used for bash and other languages. The main feature is sending the commands to the console and execute without considering the indent problem !

Advantages compared with other similar plugins

• installation and configuration are so easy without any effort.
• support multiple languages, including Python,bash
• support virtual environment of Python naturally, which can be verified by following steps
  • activate one venv,
  • open a *.py using vim
  • type:terminal to open a built-in terminal
  • type pip show numpy(or other packages), which can list the location of package. Using the location to tell whether it's in the virtual environment or not

install

Copy the content in vimrc to the vim config file, eg~/.vimrc.

After the installation, there are two ways to open the ipython console:

• open the console with --no-autoindent, for example

:terminal ipython3 --no-autoindent

Otherwise this plugin can't work properly!

• open the console with built-in command

:Ip3

which is controlled by the following config

command Ip3 terminal ipython3 --no-autoindent
command P3 terminal python3

So, you can change the alias by yourself

usage

The short cut is <leader>s.

• in normal mode: typing <leader>s will send the current line to the console and execute
• in visual mode: typing <leader>s will send the selected lines to the console and execute
• in visual mode: typing <leader>j will just send the selected content, which can be a few words in one line or several lines, to the console without executing

example send commands with indent bash command

issue

• Fix the blank lines issue when sending code blocks into Python console. Detail can be refered from Copy-paste into Python interactive interpreter and indentation, Python interactive interpreter has problems with blank lines when I paste in a script [duplicate], Blank line rule at interactive prompt and How to automatically insert spaces to make empty lines in Python files indent?
• Fix the indent issue in ipython : can't send long code blocks to ipython console. The reason is explained in jpalardy/vim-slime. The magic function in ipython can't reach the target, which is explained in Turn off IPython autoindent on submit #71. The way to solve the issue is : disable the autoindent in ipython
• Add new feature : just sending the selected content to the console without executing

ipython console python console