This project is no longer active. If you want Vim with ODBEditor support, check out MacVim
Frequently Anticipated Questions
- Why doesn't it work for [App X]?
- Most likely the application you're talking about (FireFox?) is not a Cocoa application. That's too bad. If it's Open Source you might consider building in the ODB Editor Suite yourself, it's probably not much work.
- What's the ODB Editor Suite?
- It's an 'external editor' protocol developed by the guys from BBEdit. It's very simple and supported by lots of applications. You can read more about it on their own website.
- What Applications support this ODB Editor Suite?
- Over at TextMate they got a whole list of them. Mainly FTP clients.
- Don't you know Vim has built-in FTP support?
- Yes, we knew that. What a great editor it is, *aaahh*.
- What other editors have implemented the ODB Editor Suite?
- Quite some. We don't know all of them but at least BBEdit, TextMate, Smultron, SubEthaEdit.
- Is it easy to implement the ODB Editor Suite in my editor / application?
- Yes, pretty easy. We didn't have any experience with Apple Events and look what we did in a couple of days. Gus Mueller maintains some code that might get you started. (Note that we didn't use that code, because we had to use C.