akinsho/toggleterm.nvim

Copying and pasting visual selection to REPL

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#425 opened on Apr 5, 2023

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Description

Currently :ToggleTermSendVisualSelection sends lines to the REPL line-by-line, which in many cases breaks the behavior of code blocks. For example, when sending the following code to ipython

def hi():
    print("hi")

    return "message sent"

we get a SyntaxError: 'return' outside function because, being sent line-by-line, the line break above starts a new execution cell (actually, you first get an indentation error because the print command is sent by default without indentation; #243 provides a quick fix). These errors would be fixed by literally copying and pasting the above code into the REPL, rather than sending it line-by-line. Could you consider implementing this behavior (or suggesting how to do so)?

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Research direction
Investigate the current implementation of ToggleTermSendVisualSelection in the plugin and modify it to send the entire visual selection as a single block to the REPL terminal, possibly using vim.fn.chansend or similar functions to paste the code directly.
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lua
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tooling
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2
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1-3 hours
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Clear
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