The vim-client command-line tools vim-client-edit, vim-client-diff and the Python module vim_client will allow you to connect to a Vim server and make it: - Edit files or directories in new tabs, - Compare files (similar to vimdiff), - Evaluate expressions and return their result, - Send commands to Vim. It will allow you, for example, to make Vim edit or diff files from outside of Vim (e.g. from a shell like Bash, Zsh, etc.). License Copyright (C) 2022-2026 James Cherti. Distributed under terms of the MIT license. Requirements Python >= 3.0 The Vim editor ('vim' or 'gvim' in $PATH. Vim … Continue reading →