@DJMcMayhem cool, I noted it in my github feed, looking forward to it

does/will it support watching the V code run "live"?

Unfortunately no, I'm not exactly sure how to do that

If you want to watch it live, probably the best way is to do vim -u vim/init.vim and manually type it out

(Assuming your terminal can interpret meta-keys)

@Cowsquack Actually, you sort of could if you open up a vim input -u vim/init.vim and then run :call Execute_Program("path/to/source", "verbose") where "verbose" is a 0 or 1 for whether you want verbose mode.

I'm a total bash noob, so I'm not exactly sure what the best way to escape a bash-string to pass to vimscript is. I'm thinking the most foolproof way would be just a list of ASCII codes, but if someone else knows a better way I'm all ears

@DJMcMayhem Although that might need an another arg to optionally sleep between each key so that it isn't too fast. Which means ñ/ò would need that too. Hmm...

@DJMcMayhem (looking at the GH issue) the issue about xterm was for debug mode, but there probably exists some program that does that for you

@DJMcMayhem in what context do you want to pass it to vimscript?

This room has been dead for over a year, jeez

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@Cowsquack So I want to take each extra arg (in bash I suppose that's $2 and up) and do something like -c 'call setreg("a", "$2")' -c 'call setreg("b", "$3")' etc.

brb in a while

@Cowsquack Oh and speaking of the arg inputs, there's a new useful feature. Ñ now evaluates to the number of args, so you could do something like ÑñÀé*o<esc>

For a practical example

@DJMcMayhem something like this? tio.run/…

Yeah, but I need it to work for arbitrary strings without breaking vim

ah, I see the problem now

So I was thinking that I would just do a list of ASCII values

unix.stackexchange.com/a/92448/216467 shows how to get the ascii value for a character

Yeah, I think I know how I could do it, I'm just wondering if there's a neater way

There's also stackoverflow.com/a/27817504/3524982, but that's for bash, so I don't know if it would work for vimscript also

doesn't appear to because of the $'' strings

maybe ask on tnb

Actually, the other thing I could do that would be easier than a list of ASCII values is a string like "\xXX\xXX..." since then vim doesn't have to do any more work

That'll probably be the best way

then do you have a way to convert it to that format in bash?

Probably just printf in a loop

I think the rework is done now