Sendtoterm is a neovim plugin that allows you to:
- send text from a buffer to a terminal (or terminals)
- easily set up an autorun command to send a specific string to a terminal (or terminals) when a file is saved
A terminal can be:
- a neovim terminal
- the previous or next Zellij pane
Example usages:
- incrementally writing or modifying a script, and testing it by sending contents to a REPL (irb, ipython, node, etc.)
- Jupyter-style workbooks -- send ``` blocks to a repl
- running commands on multiple terminals (e.g. locally + remote SSH server)
- Open neovim
- Open a terminal, either: a. a terminal within neovim, and run :SendtotermSet or :SendtotermAdd (add can add multiple times, so you can send text to multiple at a time) b. OR, open another terminal panel in Zellij, and run :SendtotermZNext or :SendtotermZPrev in vim, depending on whether the terminal is after of before the pane with neovim.
- In a neovim buffer, add some shell commands like "echo hello" and "ls". You
can send text to the terminal in several ways:
a. run :Sendtoterm while on the line with the shell command
b. select text in visual mode and run :Sendtoterm to send the selected lines
c. run :%Sendtoterm to send the whole buffer to the terminal
d. it can be useful to set up a macro or shortcut key to send text in-between
lines of triple backquotes. I use the following in which-key to make
<Leader>Tmake a mark "t", selects the lines in between triple backquotes, send the lines, and return the cursor to its original position.['<Leader>T' = { "mt?^ *```<CR>jVk/^ *```<CR>k:Sendtoterm<CR>:noh<CR>`t", "Send code block to terminal" },
Demo 1: send whole file to zellij pane with :%Sendtoterm
Demo 2: send line to multiple neovim terminals
Based on nvim-plugin-template
This is my first nvim plugin, so it's a little rough around the edges still.
# Run tests using nvim (might require plenary.nvim?)
make
# Formatter, see https://github.com/JohnnyMorganz/StyLua
stylua .