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Re:Vim 8.0 released by joemi on Monday September 12, 2016 @06:13PM (#12484116)
That feels like the realm of a plugin, IMO. (I don't know enough to know whether or not that type of thing could be done via plugin, though.)
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Re:Vim 8.0 released by flukus on Monday September 12, 2016 @07:49PM (#12484653)
With the new async support it should be relatively simple, weekend project simple for a basic implementation.
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Re:Vim 8.0 released by JoshTriplett on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @02:29AM (#12486009)
Depends on how you implement it. neovim's implementation uses libvterm, which seems preferable to a from-scratch terminal implementation. Implementing a fully capable terminal emulator from scratch definitely isn't a weekend project.

neovim's approach links libvterm in via C. You could potentially do so via python and ctypes instead, but then you have to count on having a vim compiled with Python support.

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Re:Vim 8.0 released by flukus on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @03:29AM (#12486207)
I was thinking I'd just start sh/cmd in a process and use stdin/stdout. The api even allows for automatically sending appended lines to stdin.
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