ntmux (Network Terminal MUltipleXer)

Ntmux executes a command and sends keystrokes from the original terminal and bytes read from TCP client sockets to the command.

It lets any commands:

• interpreters of any language (ruby, python and etc.),
• vi and
• even a shell

can be controlled from anywhere:

• vim buffers,
• emacs buffers,
• other tmux windows,
• other terminals and
• other machines

using any TCP client:

• vim script,
• emacs lisp,
• telnet,
• nc and
• tcp test tools.

Compile and install

Edit the Makefile and run the following commands.

$ make          # Build for OSX or Linux automatically
$ make install  # Install to /usr/bin

Usage

% ntmux port command-and-args...

Examples:

$ ntmux 5000 ocaml
$ ntmux 5000 rlwrap scheme

Disclaimer

Currently tested only under

OSX

    % uname -pv
    Darwin Kernel Version 13.1.0: Thu Jan 16 19:40:37 PST 2014; root:xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64 i386
    
    % cc --version
    Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn)
    Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
    Thread model: posix

LINUX

    $ uname -a
    Linux tux-I3000 3.13.0-36-generic #63-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 3 21:30:45 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
    
    $ cc --version
    cc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2
    Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Demo

VIM Code

See also:

• Multi-lingual development using Ntmux
• Multi-lingual development using Ntmux - Japanese

File: ntmux.vim

function! Send(host, port, msg)
  python <<EOF
import vim
import socket
cs = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
cs.connect((vim.eval('a:host'), int(vim.eval('a:port'))))
cs.sendall(vim.eval('a:msg'))
cs.close()
EOF
endfunction

function! GetSelected()
  let tmp = @@
  silent normal gvy
  let selected = @@
  let @@ = tmp
  return selected
endfunction

command! -nargs=1 PSend call Send('localhost', <args>, GetSelected())
vnoremap cp <Esc>:PSend port<CR>

License

Copyright (c) 2014 Yoshinori Kohyama. Distributed under the BSD 3-Clause License. See the file LICENSE.md.