Compile Actionscript From Vim

I switched to Vim from Textmate a while back but I miss the Actions开发者_运维百科cript bundle for Textmate—particulate the ability to compile Actionscript directly from Textmate.

Has anyone found a way to compile Actionscript directly from Vim?

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Yes, compiling AS3 from Vim is very easy.

One basic way, assuming you have main.as file open and you are in --NORMAL-- mode, type this:

:!/path/to/flex45/bin/mxmlc %

to obtain main.swf file next to main.as or:

:!/path/to/flex45/bin/mxmlc -output=../deploy/%<.swf %

to obtain ../deploy/main.swf (relative to main.as).

• ! means "the following is a shell command".
• % means "this file, here, in the current buffer".
• %< means "this file's name without the point and the extension".

Obviously it's not really smart but you can make mxmlc read a configuration XML, for more control. See the Flex doc for the list of possible arguments. Using this way it's going to suck a lot to debug your builds.

Another way is to set mxmlc as the build program for actionscript files with:

set makeprg=/path/to/flex45/bin/mxmlc

Then, type :make % to build your project. Errors will be displayed in the quickfix window.

That said, the actual "programming" part of doing AS3 with Vim sucks hard because the only omni-completion script available (to my knowledge) has been very very limited and unfinished for years (it's not an attack against the author which must be praised for his efforts).

I've started to augment that script a couple of months ago but it's far from being finished (and a low level priority) and not that good anyway compared to what you may get in Flash Builder or FDT.

Actually, the AS3 bundle is the only thing I miss from my TextMate days, it was surprisingly polished.

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In the official vim documentation, there is an topic called: "fcsh tools : you can compile .as and .mxml files from vim via fcsh : Flex Comipler SHell". That topic describe all process of compilation .as and .mxml, but as noticed there, it tested only on unix systems.

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If you want to use FCSH on vim, take a look on https://github.com/lucasdupin/vim-utils/blob/master/bin/fcshd - it works exactly like the FCSH daemon you have on TextMate.