Vimbed

Vimbed is a Vim plugin for embedding Vim in other programs. Run Vim in the background using Vimbed to ease communication with external processes.

Projects that use Vimbed

Athame patches GNU Readline to embed Vim in bash, gdb, python, etc. Athame can also be used to patch Zsh to add Vim.
Pterosaur embeds Vim in Firefox textboxes. (No longer maintained)
Chalcogen embeds Vim in the Atom editor. (Experimental. Not maintained)

Vimbed requires Vim with +clientserver.
Vimbed works best in GNU/Linux.
Vimbed also works in OSX, but doing so requires XQuartz. (This is a requirement of vim's +clientserver functionality.)

Install vimbed with your favorite plugin-manager. If you use pathogen:

cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone http://github.com/ardagnir/vimbed

Note that vimbed won't be very useful without another process to communicate with.

Coming eventually. Until then, see Athame, Pterosaur, and Chalcogen for examples.

AGPL v3