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+===============================
+Visual Studio - Vim Integration
+===============================
+
+Copyright (C) 1997 Heiko Erhardt
+
+VisVim is a Visual Studio Add-In that allows Vim to be integrated
+as the default text editor. It will be used instead of the Visual
+Studio built-in editor when you double-click on a file or press F4
+after compiling (it will go to the proper line in the Vim buffer).
+The file can be loaded exclusively by Vim or additionally to the
+builtin Visual Studio editor (this option can be set in the VisVim
+configuration dialog inside Visual Studio).
+Vim does not replace the Visual Studio editor, it still runs in its
+own window.
+
+VisVim is based upon VisEmacs by Christopher Payne
+(Copyright (C) Christopher Payne 1997).
+
+Author: Heiko Erhardt <heiko.erhardt@gmx.net>
+Based upon: VisEmacs by Christopher Payne <payneca@sagian.com>
+Version: 1.0
+Created: 23 Oct 1997
+Date: 23 Oct 1997
+
+VisVim was originally GNU GPL licensed, as stated below. On March 21 2012
+Heiko Erhardt declared this work to be relicensed under the Vim license, as
+stated in ../../runtime/doc/uganda.txt (or ":help uganda" in Vim).
+
+VisVim is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
+VisVim is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+VisVim works with the *OLE-enabled* version of Vim version 5.0 and higher
+only!!! You must download the extra archive containing the OLE-enabled
+executable from your Vim download site. When building your own Vim
+executable, use the if_ole_vc.mak makefile (Vim 5.1 and higher).
+VisVim needs DevStudio 5.0 or higher. It does not work with DevStudio 4.2.
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+1) Close running instances of DevStudio.
+
+2) Copy VisVim.dll into a convenient directory like \vim,
+ \vim\lib, or \vim\addin
+
+3) Register the DLL using regsvr32.exe ... (Skip this on Windows 95/98)
+ Example:
+ > cd \vim\addin
+ > regsvr32 VisVim.dll
+ On NT, you should do this from an administrator account.
+ Before installing a new version of VisVim you should unregister
+ the old one using
+ > regsvr32 -unregister VisVim.dll
+ The batch files register.bat and unregister.bat can do that for you.
+
+3a) If you didn't do this yet: Register the OLE gvim:
+ > gvim -register
+
+4) Start Visual Studio and go to:
+ Tools
+ Customize...
+ Add-Ins and Macro Files
+
+5) Click on Browse, and point Visual Studio to your VisVim.dll file.
+
+6) Click the checkbox to indicate that you want to use the Add-In, and
+ Close the Customize dialog box.
+
+7) You should notice the VisVim Toolbar with the Vim Icon.
+ Click the first item of the toolbar to get to the options dialog.
+
+
+Compiling VisVim
+----------------
+
+Two Options:
+
+1) Load the VisVim.mak file as a Workspace in Visual Studio and compile
+
+2) Use the MSVC command line compiler:
+ vcvars32
+ nmake -f VisVim.mak
+
+
+Using VisVim
+------------
+
+The VisVim DLL exposes several functions to the user. These functions are
+accessible using the toolbar or by assigning hotkeys to them (see below).
+The following functions are visible on the toolbar (from left to right):
+
+1. VisVim settings dialog
+ The settings you adjust here will be saved in the registry and
+ will be reloaded on program startup.
+
+2. Enable Vim
+ Enables Vim as Visual Studio editor. Control will be switched to Vim when:
+ - Clicking a file in the file view
+ - Clicking a compiler error message line
+ - Using the 'File-Open' Dialog
+ - Showing the current source line when encountering a debugger breakpoint.
+ - Using File-New
+
+3. Disable Vim
+ The internal Visual Studio editor will be used to edit files.
+
+4. Toggle enable state
+ Toggles the enable state of VisVim. Use this function if you want to have
+ one button only to activate/deactivate Vim.
+
+5. Load current file in Vim
+ Loads the file shown in the internal editor into Vim. Use this function if
+ you want the internal editor to stay active and just edit one file in Vim.
+ This command works always whether Vim is enabled as default editor or not.
+
+You cannot use DevStudio's debugger commands from inside Vim, so you should
+disable Vim before running the debugger.
+
+You can customize the Vim toolbar itself or add the Vim buttons to other
+toolbars.
+To have fast access to the VisVim options dialog I suggest to create keyboard
+shortcuts:
+
+1) Choose
+ Tools
+ Customize...
+ Keyboard
+2) Choose Category:AddIns and Commands:VisVim.
+3) Choose 'Main' as editor, enter each hotkey and press the Assign button.
+ I suggest:
+ VisVimDialogCmd Alt+Shift+V
+ VisVimEnableCmd Alt+Shift+E
+ VisVimDisableCmd Alt+Shift+D
+ VisVimToggleCmd Alt+Shift+T
+ VisVimLoadCmd Alt+Shift+G
+4) Close the dialog
+
+Now a typical debugging example:
+
+Using "Alt+Shift+d" you turn off Vim before starting the debugger.
+After hitting the breakpoint you single step through your application
+using the internal source code editor and examine variables.
+When you stumble across the line with the null pointer
+assignment, just press "Alt+Shift+g", and correct the error in Vim.
+Save the file, press Alt+Tab to return to DevStudio and press F7 to compile.
+That's it.
+
+
+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+1. When opening a file in DevStudio the file is opened in the DevStudio
+ editor and immediately vanishes. No Vim shows up.
+ Cause: Probably you don't have the OLE-enabled Vim or you didn't
+ register it.
+ Explanation: VisVim is notified by DevStudio if an 'open document' event
+ occurs. It then closes the document in the internal editor
+ and tries to start Vim. If Vim isn't properly OLE-registered,
+ this won't work.
+ Workaround: Download and install the OLE-enable version of Vim and
+ execute "gvim -register".
+
+2. Sometimes when clicking on a file, the file won't be opened by Vim but
+ instead the Visual Studio editor comes up.
+ Cause: The file was already loaded by the DevStudio editor.
+ Explanation: VisVim works by hooks exposed by Visual Studio.
+ Most of the functionality works from the OpenDocument hook.
+ If a document is already loaded in the Visual Studio editor,
+ no 'open document' event will be generated when clicking the
+ file in the file list.
+ Workaround: Close the document in Visual Studio first.
+
+3. I can't get VisVim to work. Either the Vim toolbar does not appear at all
+ or weird crashes happen.
+ Cause: The Visual Studio installation is messed up.
+ Explanation: I can't give you one. Ask M$.
+ Workaround: Reinstall DevStudio (I know this is brute, but in some cases
+ it helped). There was one case where the service pack 1 had
+ to be installed, too.
+
+4. If an instance of Vim is already running, VisVim will use that instance
+ and not start a new one.
+ Cause: This is proper OLE behaviour
+ Explanation: Some call it a bug, some a feature. That's just the way OLE
+ works.
+
+5. When being in insert mode in Vim and selecting a file in Visual Studio,
+ the Vim command :e ... is inserted as text instead of being executed.
+ Cause: You probably know...
+ Explanation: The Vim OLE automation interface interprets the VisVim
+ commands as if they were typed in by the user.
+ So if you're in insert mode Vim considers it to be text.
+ I decided against sending an ESC before the command because
+ it may cause a beep or at least a screen flash when noeb is
+ set.
+ Workaround: Get used to press ESC before switching to DevStudio.
+
+6. I'm tired of VisVim but I can't get rid of it. I can't delete it in
+ Tools-Customize-Add-Ins.
+ Cause: You can't delete an item you once added to the add-ins
+ list box.
+ Explanation: M$ just didn't put a 'delete' button in the dialog box.
+ Unfortunately there is no DEL key accellerator as well...
+ Workaround: You can't kill it, but you can knock it out:
+ 1. Uncheck the check box in front of 'Vim Developer Studio
+ Add-in'.
+ 2. Close Visual Studio.
+ 3. Delete VisVim.dll or move it somewhere it can't be found.
+ 4. Run Visual Studio.
+ 5. Tools -> Customize ->Add-ins and Macro-Files.
+ 6. A message appears:
+ ".../VisVim.dll" "This add-in no longer exists. It will
+ no longer be displayed."
+ That's it!
+
+
+Change history
+--------------
+
+1.0a to 1.0
+-----------
+
+- All settings in the VisVim dialog are remembered between DevStudio sessions
+ by keeping them in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Vim\VisVim).
+- Added an option to do a :cd before opening the file (having a file opened
+ by clicking it but finding out to be still in C:\Windows\system when trying to
+ open another file by ":e" can be annoying). Change directory can be
+ done to the source file's directory or it's parent directory.
+- Added some explanations to the error message for the CO_E_CLASSSTRING error
+ ("Use OLE Vim and make sure to register...").
+
+1.0 to 1.1a
+-----------
+
+- The VisVim toolbar button now shows the new Vim icon instead of the old one.
+- Made some changes to the documentation, added the troubleshooting chapter
+ and ToDo list.
+- File-New-* now invokes Vim instead of the builtin editor if enabled.
+
+1.1 to 1.1b
+-----------
+
+- Extended the VisVim toolbar to have multiple buttons instead of one.
+- Moved the enable/disable commands from the settings dialog to the toolbar.
+- Added the toggle enable/disable command
+- Added the 'load current file' command.
+
+1.1b to 1.2
+-----------
+
+No new features, just some fine tuning:
+
+- Changed the GUID of the VisVim OLE interface to avoid conflicts with a
+ version of VisEmacs or VisVile on the same computer (Guy Gascoigne)
+- Fixed a bug caused by a bug in the Developer Studio add-in code generator
+ (Clark Morgan)
+- Fixed a memory leak (Clark Morgan)
+- Added an option in the VisVim dialog to prepend ESC before the first command
+ that is sent to Vim. This will avoid inserting the command as text when Vim
+ is still in insert mode.
+- An :update command is sent to Vim before any other command to update the
+ current file if it is modified, or else the following :cd or :e command will fail.
+
+1.2 to 1.3a
+-----------
+
+- Fixed a bug caused by a missing EnableModeless() function call in VimLoad().
+ This seems to reduce VisVim crashing DevStudio on some systems (it
+ occasionally still seems to happen, but it's more stable now).
+ (Vince Negri)
+- Added support for the new CTRL-\ CTRL-N command of Vim 5.4a.
+ This prevents Vim from beeping when a VisVim command is executed and Vim is
+ not in insert mode.
+
+
+ToDo List
+---------
+
+P1 is highest priority, P10 lowest
+
+P9 Switching to DevStudio using ALT-TAB may get annoying. Would be nice to
+ have the option to map ActivateApplication("Visual Studio") in Vim.
+ Vim DLLs would solve that problem.
+
+P8 Execute :tag command in Vim for word under cursor in DevStudio
+
+P7 Controlling the Visual Studio Debugger from inside Vim
+ See message above. Also a 'Debug' highlight group and a
+ command to highlight a certain line would be necessary.
+
+P6 Provide an option to open the current file in VisVim in
+ Visual Studio editor
+ Same as above message. A kind of two way OLE automation would have to be
+ established between VisVim and Vim. Also a 'Debug' highlight group and a
+ command to highlight a certain line would be necessary.
+
+
+Known Problems
+--------------
+
+- Occasional memory corruptions in DevStudio may appear on some systems.
+ Reinstalling DevStudio helped in some cases.
+ The cause of these crashes is unclear; there is no way to debug this.
+ Recompiling VisVim with DevStudio SP3 didn't help.
+ I assume it's a problem deep inside the DevStudio add-in OLE interfaces.
+ This will hopefully be fixed with DevStudio 6.
+
+
+Have fun!
+
+Heiko Erhardt
+heiko.erhardt@gmx.net
+