vim-sendtowindow VS zepl.vim

I have been using https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow

I use R with Vim. Usually the R script file is open on top and there is a :terminal window with R running below. And I use a small vim-plugin [1] for sending commands from the editor to the REPL.

This has a few advantages, major being that you can run any language with a dynamic REPL this way, without changing your setup. Or, you can even have two files, written in two different languages, open side by side with a corresponding REPLs running beneath each of them. The downside of course is that you miss on auto-completion and other integrations like that. These are not impossible, but you would have to torture your Vim setup quite a bit in order to implement them.

[1]: https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow

I often have to perform statistical tests on genomic data. Which in practice means running the same test on every gene (row of a matrix). Running it separately on each row is often slow, specially in R. So to speed it up I started an R package "matrixTests": https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/matrixTests which is a lot faster and deals nicely with edge case scenarios (missing values, infinities, empty matrices, etc).

Another notable mention is maybe vim plugin "sendtowindow": https://github.com/karoliskoncevicius/vim-sendtowindow which implements an operator for sending text to another window. Handy for sending code in a REPL within vim ":terminal" buffer.

You could write a command that runs commands in your terminal window without changing tabs. Checkout zepl.vim's source code for an example. Its gz operator and :ReplSend command send text to the terminal. So you could replace all of your steps with :ReplSend node restart or whatever.

Then I interface with jupyter-qtconsole within vim via Zepl, my favorite REPL plugin: https://github.com/axvr/zepl.vim

I use neovim with zepl and set up lsp with lsp-config and coq_nvim. It allows me to use the R repl while still using vim commands in a terminal. If you want some of those extras that an ide would give you, like file browsing and listing environments, then I don't really know of any alternatives to rstudio, other than vscode.

Try zepl, :Repl bash, C-w j, :new, type some stuff in that buffer with ins-completion and do gzz to send it to the bash session.