Last Updated: February 25, 2016

Run tests from MacVim in iTerm session

The following allows me to use key strokes from within MacVim to stream commands to the current iTerm session

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The run_command script lives in /usr/local/bin/run_command. It runs the input as a command in the terminal, and then puts application focus back on MacVim.

 #!/usr/bin/env osascript
 on run argv
 tell application "iTerm"
 tell the first terminal
 tell the current session
 write text argv as string
 end tell
 end tell
 end

 tell application "MacVim"
 activate
 end tell
end run

Then set up the .vimrc file to call the run_command script

function! SendToTerminal(args)
 execute ":silent !run_command '" . a:args . "'"
endfunction

function! ClearTerminal()
 call SendToTerminal("clear")
endfunction

function! RSpec()
 call ClearTerminal()
 if exists("s:current_test")
 call SendToTerminal("rspec -fd " . s:current_test)
 endif
endfunction

function! RunCurrentTest()
 let s:current_test = expand('%:p')
 call RSpec()
endfunction

function! RunCurrentLineInTest()
 let s:current_test = expand('%:p') . ":" . line('.')
 call RSpec()
endfunction

function! RunLastCommand()
 call RSpec()
endfunction

nmap <Leader>t :call RunCurrentTest()<CR>
nmap <Leader>l :call RunCurrentLineInTest()<CR>
nmap <Leader>rr :call RunLastCommand()<CR>

For more information and other vim tips checkout out my dot files

https://github.com/harlow/dotfiles

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