lewistg / vazel

Bazel + Vim + tmux

Vazel: Bazel + Vim + tmux

Vazel is a plugin geared towards a Bazel-Vim-tmux setup, so it might not be for everyone. In fact, I built it for my own particular workflow.

In tmux I normally have one window dedicated to development. This window has two panes in a horizontal split. The top pane runs Vim and the bottom pane is a terminal for running Bazel commands, among other miscellaneous shell commands. (See diagram below.)

+--------------------------------+ 
|                                | 
|                                | 
|                                | 
|          <Vim pane>            | 
|                                | 
|                                | 
|                                | 
+--------------------------------+ 
|                                | 
|       <Terminal pane>          |
|                                | 
+--------------------------------+ 

The main feature of Vazel is sending bazel build and bazel test commands to the terminal pane. For example, let's say I am editing the file ~/myproject/src/main/scala/com/foo/bar/Bar.scala. And lets say this file is part of the //myproject/src/main/scala/com/foo package. Then if I run the Vazel plugin command VazelBuild, then the command bazel build //myproject/src/main/scala/com/foo will start running in the terminal pane.

Commands

• :VazelBuild [target_name] [-- [bazel_options]] Constructs a Bazel command of the form below and sends it to the terminal window.

  bazel build [bazel_options] //<files_current_package>[:<target_name>] 
  

• :VazelRun [target_name] [-- [bazel_options]] Constructs a Bazel command of the form below and sends it to the terminal window.

  bazel run [bazel_options] //<files_current_package>[:<target_name>] 
  

• :VazelTest [target_name] [-- [bazel_options]] Constructs a Bazel command of the form below and sends it to the terminal window.

  bazel test [bazel_options] //<files_current_package>[:<target_name>] 
  

• :VazelSpBUILD Opens the BUILD (or BUILD.bazel) for the current file's package in a horizontal split.

• :VazelVsBUILD Opens the BUILD (or BUILD.bazel) for the current file's package in a vertical split.