clientserver needs to be compiled into Vim

[cxeba]

This looks good; solving the same problem I was having with Unity. But your solution hung me up for quite a while with mysterious failure. The problem was that Vim (8.1, default from Debian 10) does not have the clientserver feature compiled in. Hence the servername and serverlist options won't work. Maybe I'll compile a Vim to have proper support for this, but for people stuck on this problem, just have it open the file without this feature. Thanks.

[nosduco]

Thanks for the issue submission! I honestly haven't touched this project in a while but let me put it on my personal task board to patch that up. Will probably just have to check Vim version or something of that sorts but shouldn't be too hard. I'll keep you updated.

[cxeba]

No biggie. I think you and I are the only people who have ever wanted to use a sensible editor in Unity. :-) I just posted the problem to save people time who ran into the same limitation I did. My VimRunner.sh looks simply like this:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/mate-terminal --command="/usr/bin/vim +${L} \"$1\""

And that sort of worked. But I respect your method which is the right way to do it and adds sensible features that Vim can provide. But only if they're compiled in! Cheers.

[cxeba]

It might be possible to use the strategy you were attempting with GNU Screen. This way you can reattach if it's already open or start new if not. Unlike getting a non-standard Vim, it would (usually) be possible to apt install screen. The optimal script would try your way and then maybe fall back to this way. Just an idea. If I do enough Unity editing and work that out, I'll post it.