Adds various ergonomic improvements to VimShell for use with Github Copilot. The modifications work in Linux only.
Works as a drop-in replacement for Shougo's original vimshell.nvim in my tutorial for Copilot in the terminal. For information about VimShell generally, check doc/vimshell.txt. Of course, most of the credit for this goes to Shougo.
The bexe command allows you to run native bash commands by prefixing the line
with !. It works by writing the set of statements into a temporary file and
executing that file using bash. This is useful for running commands that
would otherwise be interpreted by VimShell as multiple statements, e.g.
!for i in {1..10}; do echo $i; done
will now work as expected. (Note the ! prefix!)
To declare functions, use the declare -f command to write the function to a
temporary file, then source that file using source. For example:
!myfunc() { echo "hello world"; }; declare -f myfunc >/tmp/myfunc.sh;
!source /tmp/myfunc.sh; myfunc
Will print
hello world