[CentralOH] Unittesting with vi(m)

[Eric Wilson]

Eventually, you may want to look into nosetests. It will find and execute
all tests in all test files, based on naming conventions.

Eric Wilson

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:

> So I'm using Test Driven Development. I have vim open with two side by
> side windows. One window has the code under test, the other the unit tests.
> I have a code runner under the if __name__ == '__main__': section of the
> unit test file.  I can quickly run my unit tests by switching to that
> window (ctrl-W W) and doing :! python %.
>
> I think it would be smoother if I could execute python with the unit test
> file regardless of which window is active.  Of course I could specify the
> path to the unittest file, but that's awkward. The next best solution would
> be to create a quick map (which is what I'll probably do if I don't come up
> with something better).
>
> But I wonder if there is a way to specify a file by buffer number as the
> argument to :! python instead of % (for the current buffer)?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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