Zeitgeist and vim/gvim

Question

If I open file via nautilus and edit it in gvim Zeitgeist shows an entry for this file. Doing the same but opening the file from bash/zsh with vim/gvim Zeitgeist shows no entry for this action.

Is it possible and what is to do that both actions behave same?

edit: Some screenshots on Zeitgeist / Gnome Activity Journal

Answer 1

As far as I understand, Zeigeist is a Gnome activity journal. It records what you do in Nautilus because that's a Gnome application. It won't notice anything if you start vim from bash or zsh. I'm not sure about opening a file in GVim.

You might wish to make a feature request to the Zeitgeist developers to provide command line access, e.g. so you can run zeitgeist-record vim foo to record that you ran vim on foo. (Or document the feature if it already exists.)

Answer 2

You can get this by installing zeitgeist-datasource-vim from this PPA

https://launchpad.net/~zeitgeist/+archive/ppa

Additionally you can install it from source (if you want). Instructions here

http://wiki.zeitgeist-project.com/Installing_Zeitgeist_Dataproviders_from_trunk