[Gardeners] Slim-vim (nee Slimpl) project status, April 2006

[Brad Beveridge]

I did compile Vim+ECL on OS X Intel.  For anyone compiling on OS X GCC
4 (both architectures I think) you need to drop the optimisations back
from -O2 to -O

Cheers
Brad

On 4/3/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> Hello, List,
>
> Last month I announced that Jim Bailey had linked Embeddable Common
> Lisp (ECL) with Vim, and that the Slimpl project had abandoned (or at
> least put on hold) the Perl module to talk to Swank.
>
> Since then, several things have happened.
>
> * Jim Bailey, Eirik Nygaard, and I have all put up publicly available
>   Darcs repositories with the patched Vim source.  See
>   http://wiki.alu.org/Slim-Vim-Repos .
> * We voted to shut down the old mailing list (slimpl at lispniks.com) and
>   opened a new one (slim-vim at lispniks.com) with a name more in line
>   with the project goals.  A minor thing, admittedly, but better now
>   than later.  Slim-vim currently has 25 subscribers.  See
>   http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/slim-vim .
> * I released ecl-repl.vim, which provides a primitive ECL REPL within
>   Vim, and Vim keyboard mappings to talk to it.  ecl-repl.vim
>   replicates much of the functionality of VILisp (and fixes some
>   long-standing bugs in it), all within Vim.  See
>   http://www.lispniks.com/pipermail/slim-vim/2006-March/000034.html .
> * Brad Beveridge has compiled Vim+ECL on Mac OSX/Intel (I think; maybe
>   it was only ECL).
> * I've compiled Vim+ECL on Windows/Cygwin.
>
> In the coming months, we want to take slime.el and get it to run in
> ECL in Vim.  Ideally, we won't have to alter slime.el very much, but I
> suspect that that dream won't come true; slime.el has a lot of
> Emacs-specific code wrapped up in it (oddly enough ;).  So we've
> sketched the beginning of an architecture that will allow us to
> separate Slime into a front end and a back end; the back end will talk
> to Swank, and the front end will talk to the editor.  In parallel with
> that, we'll write a front-end for Vim.
>
> We have yet to contact the Slime developers about any of this.  We
> wanted to have some actual code to bring to the table, and also some
> architectural ideas that would benefit the Slime code base even
> without considering a Vim interface.
>
> Please feel free to join the Slim-Vim list to discuss the project, or
> ask questions here.
>
> -- Larry Clapp
>    Slim-Vim project champion
>
>
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