ghost-text.vim

support for GhostText in vim:

refer to https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText

install with vundle:

Plugin 'pandysong/ghost-text.vim'

Then

:so %
:PluginInstall

Note that part of the plugin is written in Python3, so vim must be compiled with Python3

running following to see if it supports Python3:

:py3 import vim; print("hello")

The plugin also needs websockets package:

python3 -m pip install websockets

Also note that vim must support channel, so better to use the latest vim.

start ghost-text.vim

start on vim side

:GhostTextStart

This will create a server for browser to connect.

click GhostText in a browser

Refer to https://github.com/GhostText/GhostText

Once a text editor box is selected, an buffer will be open in vim. Editing on either one will synchronize with the other one.

stop on vim side

:GhostTextStop

Note that if you need to save the buf to another file, one may need to issue command explicitly:

:w another_file_name.txt

log

Enable log:

:let g:ghost_text_log_file = "/Users/pandysong/ghost_log.txt"

live log could be viewed by:

tail -f /Users/pandysong/ghost_log.txt

disable log:

:unlet g:ghost_text_log_file

todo

• support automatic syntax
• for text with html tags, it would be better to map to/from markdown.

This is still a very preliminary version.