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Hey,

Thanks for making this awesome tool.

I'm new to blender and specially new to python.

I'm on Linux Manjaro, using Blender 2.9.1

I'm so used to vim-mode, that using the built in text editor is a pain, so I want to connect it to vim.

For that I'm setting up this as well
https://github.com/mipmip/vim-run-in-blender

but first I need to make bpy_externall works.

I managed to install the addon by loading the zip file and enabling it in blender addons.

However, I'm not sure how it works.

Where do I store a script for this?

# start listening
bpy.ops.wm.bpy_externall_server(speed=1, mode="start")

is it inside blender or just in the terminal, or a .py file in any location?

What is the RECEIVER?

Apologies for the lack of skill, I'm sure this must be all pretty obvious for more advanced users,

I appreciate your work sharing this project. it you can provide some more details for beginners like me who can't live without vim, that would be truly appreciated!

Thanks!

Update:

Apologies, I think I have misunderstood how to work with this, I was expecting to find the tmp file in my directory structure somewhere. I now vaguely understand this may not be the case. I think this might be above my pay-grade. Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is to be able to trigger scripts in Blender from Alfred / AppleScript / Apple Shortcuts / Shell scripting. But alas, I am a bit lost here.

Original (possibly naive) message:

hello,

I haven't been able to get this to work and wondering if its a compatibility issue with more recent versions of Blender? Im on 3.2.

Thanks for your time, Nathan

I have tried many methods in the past two days, but there is no way to solve this problem. The new statement will cause more errors, and other encodings have been tried, but the problem remains.
The following is the error description.

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.2\3.2\scripts\addons\bpy_externall-master_init_.py", line 138, in modal
self.process()
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.2\3.2\scripts\addons\bpy_externall-master_init_.py", line 123, in process
fp = filepath_read_handler()
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.2\3.2\scripts\addons\bpy_externall-master_init_.py", line 82, in filepath_read_handler
fp = f.read()
File "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 3.2\3.2\python\lib\codecs.py", line 322, in decode
(result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xc9 in position 9: invalid continuation byte

the posix limitation is mostly superficial, down to paths:

• posix /tmp/whatever.io
• windows C:\\temp\\whatever.io