[Gardeners] SLIME for Vim -- work started

[Zach Beane]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:34:42AM -0500, Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I'd like to help, but I don't really understand how SLIME works.  I also
> wonder if it is the best model for enabling other editors.
> 
> Can somebody explain what would be required in setting up something like
> this:
> 
> We set up 2 processes.
> 
> Process 1 is a lisp interpreter that listens on a socket.
> 
> Process 2 is inside vim and listens for the user to ask to submit code for
> compilation.  When the user submits some code for compilation, we send the
> code as bytes through the socket to process 1 and then send the results
> back.
> 
> It would be nice if a vim session could connect to a lisp process running on
> another box.  That way I wouldn't have to have lisp installed to use the
> plugin.
> 
> Another advantage with this is that any editor that can connect to the lisp
> process can use this set up.

That's pretty much how SLIME currently works now.

Zach