[Gardeners] SLIME for Vim -- work started

[John Connors]

Larry Clapp wrote:
> On 2006-01-08, drewc <drewc+... at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>John Connors <johnc at yagc.ndo.co.uk> writes:
>>
>>>Matthew Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I like the idea of making the swank connection friendly to any
>>>>editor, but is there a reason to use scheme in particular?
>>>
>>>The protocol is basically based on the idea of passing
>>>S-expressions back and forth between the editor and the Lisp
>>>interpreter. Something based on S-expressions and simple and small
>>>enough to be embedded in an editor seems to suggest a small Scheme
>>>to me.
>>
>>Sounds like a job for librep[1] to me. 
>>
>>drewc
>>
>>[1] http://librep.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 
> While anyone who wishes to is of course welcome to add librep or ecl
> or anything at all to Vim, librep in particular does not impress me
> with its activity.  Its fora and mailing lists consist either of
> unanswered bugreports or feature requests, or spam.  Sawfish, which
> uses librep as its extension language, didn't impress me either.
> Perhaps they're both just very, very stable ... or maybe they're dead.
> 
> If someone wanted to add a Lisp to Vim, I would recommend either ECL
> or clisp.  As I've mentioned before, such a task currently exceeds my
> supply of free time.  :)
> 

TBH my interest is in jEdit, so I guess I'd have to try adding ABCL to 
jEdit and porting slime.el to that. Both projects seem actively maintained 
and documented, I'm tempted, but I want to finish my software renderer, 
first..

> For anyone waiting with baited breath for SLIMPL and/or SLIM-Vim, I
> would recommend that, in the meantime, you check out Emacs with
> Easymacs.  (Thanks to Peter Heslin, author of Easymacs, for the
> information that, while Easymacs doesn't run under XEmacs, the newest
> Emacs with GTK looks way better than the Emacs I looked at a year ago.
> Debian users: "apt-get -t testing install emacs-snapshot-gtk" (if you
> have a "testing" distribution configured in /etc/apt/sources.list; if
> you don't and don't know how to do that, Read The Fine Manual, or ask
> here).)
> 
> -- Larry
> 
> 
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