Mirmo Dynamics

The idea of this script came by realizing that the main reason I (almost) never fill my timesheet, is because I just forget it. How easier could it be if my editor (namely vim) could fill it for me ? Or at least, help me fill it. This script is meant to help this process. It will hook to every configured event (in the code below, BufRead and BufNewFile) and add a log line to the log file. Easy heh ? Of course, the script it self won't be of much use, I'll have to add some more events to track as well as writting some kind of frontend for it, with reporting & all.

if exists('trackloaded')
  finish
endif

" list of autocmd events:
" http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/autocmd.html#autocmd-events
let trackevents = ['BufRead', 'BufNewFile', 'BufEnter', 'BufWrite', 'BufLeave']
let trackfile   = '/tmp/timetrack.dat'
let trackloaded = 1

for event in trackevents
  execute 'autocmd '.event.' * call Track("'.event.'")'
endfor

unlet event

function Track(event)
  let l:filename = @%
  if l:filename != g:trackfile
    if match(l:filename, '/') != 0
      let l:filename = getcwd().'/'.l:filename
    endif
    silent execute '!echo `date +\%s` '.a:event.' '.l:filename.' >> '.g:trackfile
  endif
endfunction

You might note from this snippet that I'm not very comfortable with vimscripting :-) If you have a better way of doing this (I'm thinking mostly about the file writting here), don't hesitate to tell me.

Remember my old post about vim and rox-filer ? Well I've got one tiny and silly addition to it now, I can mass open files from any shell command line, with this little script placed in my ~/bin/ (don't forget to chmod +x):

for i in $*; do
  /usr/bin/gvim --servername ash0 --remote-silent-tab $i
  sleep 1
done;

The sleep 1 is necessary as vim does not seem to like being flooded with files.

Example usage:

sendtovim `grep foo *`

Opens in vim all files containing "foo" in the current directory. Who said handy ?

Note: I know have an updated and useful version of this script

Une des questions cruciales qui se pose à tout développeur à au moins un moment de sa vie (souvent plusieurs en fait) est le choix d'un environnement de développement. J'en ai testé pas mal, plus ou moins longtemps, et bien que je ne sois jamais complètement satisfait, l'idée de perdre du temps à développer le mien m'indispose. J'ai donc opté pour l'environnement qui me va le mieux: Linux + gVim + Rox-filer.

Note: je ne couvre pas ici les fonctionnalités de débuging avancé, que je n'utilise pas encore, mais pour lesquelles j'ai déjà en tête des solutions qui me conviendront bien mieux que les outils intégrés à un quelconque IDE (je pense fortement à Xdebug).

geoffrey@PROD000005:~$ ls
bin   Desktop      helloworld.jpg     openvpn      tmp   xml
code  Documents    Network            public_html  tmp2
dc2   Extractions  OnRefaitMatch.xml  tests        :w

Ce n'est pas un fake. Et pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas, tant pis pour vous.