.vim does not work properly

[gruis]

Vim and other similar shell commands expect to be working with a tty. When the server executes a shell command it uses popen3. Vim complains that STDIN and STDOUT are not TTYs. It then doesn't respond to navigation commands correctly.

Does this affect other commands, e.g.,. passwd?

[banister]

In the case of issuing an actual edit or edit-method command though, I think this should execute on the client, with the server sending across the file. When the client has finished editing the file it should be sent back to the server and reloaded (or whatever). IMO the most common interactive shell command is the editor and so if we manage this on the client instead, you would have solved the 90% case. I don't think it's such an issue that .vim doesn't work, as they should really be using edit instead anyway ;)

To support what i described, we'll probably need to refactor the edit and edit-method commands in Pry itself

[gruis]

That's a good point. It would be nice if edit and edit-method executed locally so that the user can work in their typical editor.

[gruis]

3b4117c adds support for edit and edit-method