[Gardeners] Slim-Vim reaches v0.1

[Brad Beveridge]

Hello all, the Slim-Vim project (http://wiki.alu.org/Slim-Vim) has
just reached a pre-beta stage that I am labelling v0.1

The Slim-Vim project aims to implement the Emacs Slime debugger in
Vim, using Embedded Common Lisp as the Vim scripting language.  At the
moment Slim-Vim can:
  - Evaluate forms from a Vim buffer on the Swank backend, using the
correct package from the current file
  - Automatically open a debugger window that lets you view the
immediate backtrace, show/hide local variables and invoke a restart
when a error condition occurs.
 - Open an inspector window to view data in variables
 - Navigate through sub-elements of a compound data type
 - Pop back to previous inspector menus.

Right now, Slim-Vim is not for the faint of heart - you need to
compile Vim and ECL yourself, and so far the only tested backend is
SBCL.  However, we do need testers and our community (mailing list is
http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/slim-vim) is small and
helpful.

*So if you're a Vi guy at heart, suffering at the hands of Emacs for
your Lisp sins - come give Slim-Vim a try.  Your wrists will thank you
for it!

Cheers
Brad

*No editor wars please!  :)  I can't be the only Lisper that doesn't
like Emacs (can I?...)

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