Tender Lovemaking

Yay! I got vim and autotest integration working. When I run autotest, if there is an error, I can have Vim read the errors from autotest and jump me to the right place.

Here is a video of me using it:

Please note that I’m not copying and pasting anything. In vim, I hit a command and Vim automatically picks up errors from autotest and jumps me to the line where the error occurred.

You too can impress your friends with this trick! Here’s how:

1. Make sure you have vim-ruby installed
2. Use this as your .autotest file:

   require 'autotest/restart'
   
   Autotest.add_hook :initialize do |at|
     at.unit_diff = 'cat'
   end
   
   Autotest.add_hook :ran_command do |at|
     File.open('/tmp/autotest.txt', 'wb') { |f|
       f.write(at.results.join)
     }
   end
   

3. Add this to your .vimrc:
   
compiler rubyunit
nmap <Leader>fd :cf /tmp/autotest.txt<cr> :compiler rubyunit<cr>
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