Live ==== Live is like IRC only it is meant to be used from a text editor, it essentially polls a *nix pipe and evaluates its contents. It was devised for audiovisual livecoding (ruby-processing and scruby), a block can be bound to a key and can be called later by a keystroke. Usage ----- $ live open a new terminal $ echo 'hello' > /tmp/live-rb You will see the code evaluated in the first terminal $ echo 'bind_key(:a){ 'key a was pressed' }' > /tmp/live-rb When you press the key 'a' with focus on the first terminal it will call the block Vim --- To use from vim paste this in your .vimrc file function EvalLiveRuby() range let text = [join(getline(a:firstline, a:lastline), ';')] return writefile(text, '/tmp/live-rb') endfunction map x :call EvalLiveRuby() Then by pressing leader and x you will execute the file or range in the live session