The long-term goal of this plugin is to provide notebook-like interaction with interpreted languages similar to Mathematica or Jupyter (within the limits of a text editor like vim).

Features

• Run an interpreter as an inferior process.
• Send code to this process (asynchronously without blocking vim).
• Insert (or dynamically update) the results into the source code (as commented out block below the respective source code). See also g:workbook#insert_results_in_buffer.
• Transcribe the interaction with the interpreter.
• Provide code completion (see 'omnifunc') for some filetypes.

How to use this plugin

• Open a file with a supported filetype (see below or workbook#GetSupportedFiletypes()).
• Type :Workbook or add the filetype to g:workbook_autosetup_filetypes to automatically enable the workbook mode for the specified filetypes.
• Press <c-cr> to evaluate the current paragraph.
• Press <localleader>w<F1> for help on other commands and maps -- see also workbook#SetupBuffer().

The following filetypes are supported well

• R (supports code completion)
• Rmd (same as R)

Experimental/basic support is provided for:

• fsharp
• javascript
• python
• ruby
• scala
• sh (default: bash)
• vim

Currenty, the main use case is to interact with R. Other than other well-known R-related vim plugins, the workbook plugin has no non-vim dependencies and works at least on Linux and Windows with no problems.

Demo

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Install

Either use the zip archive:

• Download the zip archive
• Extract it to ~/.vim/pack/tml/start/workbook

or install from github:

• Start a terminal
• Change the working directory to ~/.vim/pack/tml/start/
• Type: git clone https://github.com/tomtom/workbook_vim

NOTE: On Windows, ~/.vim might be ~/vimfiles. Please see 'runtimepath' for details.

Requirements

This script requires tlib (vimscript #1863) to be installed -- see https://github.com/tomtom/tlib_vim.

Dependencies:

tlib (>= 1.22)

http://github.com/tomtom/tlib_vim

License: GPLv3 or later