Concern 13

Control FoxDot or pym2149 using Vim

Concern

Use Vim to control FoxDot or pym2149 with the aid of GNU Screen.

Install latest release

# Tested on Linux and Mac:
pip3 install --user Concern

You will also need one of the following backends.

FoxDot backend

# Simply install, and Concern will use it:
pip3 install --user FoxDot

pym2149 backend

# Install as usual:
pip3 install --user pym2149

# Tell Concern to use it instead of foxdot:
echo Concern consumerName = pym2149 | tee -a ~/.settings.arid

Usage

FoxDot

# Any arguments are passed to vim, here we discover the FoxDot demo directory:
Concern "$(python3 -c 'from pkg_resources import resource_filename; print(resource_filename("FoxDot", "demo"))' | tail -1)"

• FoxDot is running in the right hand third of the screen
• Send code to FoxDot by typing backslash followed by ]
  • This will send the smallest top-level suite under the cursor
  • The backslash is actually your Vim leader key
• Use visual mode to send multiple top-level suites at once
• Use backslash enter instead of backslash ] to send from cursor to the end of the file
• Use backslash q to quit all of Vim, FoxDot and GNU Screen

pym2149

# GitHub trick to download some files to play with:
svn export https://github.com/combatopera/pym2149/trunk/contrib

# Load a non-trivial tune written in pym2149's (currently nameless) live coding language:
Concern 'contrib/Lemmings 2 Tune 6.py'

• Once pym2149 has initialised, type backslash enter at the top of the file to send the whole program