Need for two shells

[arkandel]

Hey folks,

I've been using vdebug lately and it's really useful. I was wondering if anyone had a solution for the following issue:

I'm mostly debugging PHP over CLI on Linux. When I am doing so now I first hit F10 from vim to start connecting, then from a second shell I run php on the script while exporting the XDEBUG_CONFIG variable.

While this works, it's a bit annoying to have to use two consoles. Does anyone have a way (perhaps a workaround) to avoid this? I tried running a script from within vim after hitting F10 but that didn't work out.

Thanks in advance. :)

[joonty]

Hi @arkandel,

Currently that's the best way of doing it. In version 2 of vdebug (which will be released when I get some time to spend on it) the "Waiting for a connection" thing doesn't actually block your vim, so you could potentially run a background command through vim instead. You could check out the version 2 branch as it is an play around?

[arkandel]

Ah, right, that'd be convenient. I tried running commands through vim but that didn't pan out, I suppose that's why.

I'll give version 2's branch a try, it's great to know you're working on adding features. Very much appreciated.

[evert]

I hope this is not too inappropriate, but I just wanted to chime in and say I'm also super grateful for vdebug so far, and pumped to see the prospect of a 2.0!

[joonty]

Ha, not inappropriate at all @evert! It's encouraging to see people interested in the project.

[simlrh]

Until 2.0 comes out, would the following achieve what you need?

:execute "silent !sleep 3 && php yourfile.php &" | :VdebugStart

[BadBrainJohnson]

For users of Tmux this issue can be solved by the following plugin: https://github.com/christoomey/vim-tmux-runner
Check out this explanatory video: https://vimeo.com/126420226

[ghost]

I have at least a kludge to solve this problem. Basically I launch a shell command that sleeps for 1 second and then runs the script (in my case python). While the shell command is sleeping I then launch VdebugStart. Code is below. If anybody has any improvements to this let me know as I am very much in my infancy of writing vim scripts.

:function! RunDebug()
:echo 'RunDebug...'
:let debugfile = expand('%:p')
:if debugfile == ''
: echo 'Unsaved File'
:else
: let cmd = 'Start! sleep 1; python -S /drive/python/debugger/pydbgp -d localhost:9000 ' . debugfile
: exec cmd
: VdebugStart
:endif
:endfunction

[BlackIkeEagle]

You all can start testing the async stuff by using the v2-integration branch