client side protocol

[sidorares]

I'd like to use this module as a client to vim agent (pretend I'm the vim). Currently VimClient is structured the way it's only can be used as server side end of client. I kind of still can use it, but I'd like to add proper client side protocol support. Would you be interested in PR adding this?

The code I tried to connect to vimnetbeans server:

var nb = require("./");
var net = require('net');

var socket = net.connect(3219);
var server = {
  _cleanupClient: function() {
    console.log('_cleanupClient', arguments);
  }
};
var client = new nb.VimClient(server, socket);
client.debug = true;
client.authed = true;

setTimeout(function() {
  console.log('Sending AUTH');
  socket.write('AUTH password\n');
}, 1000);

My use case: have Atom editor to connect to clewn / pyclewn

[clehner]

This sounds useful. The existing VimClient is oriented around sending commands and functions, and receiving events and replies, whereas a real client would do the opposite. Would it be better to build the client capability into a new class? Or perhaps a new project? What could it share with the existing VimClient and VimBuffer?

[sidorares]

I'm not sure yet :) maybe completeky separate client library would be easier

[sidorares]

Though it woulld be useful to keep them together for tests