[slim-vim] thanks, feedback

[Brad Beveridge]

On 10/08/06, Serafeim Zanikolas <serzan at hellug.gr> wrote:
> Hello lispers,
>
> First of all, thanks a lot for the slim-vim effort! I've discovered lisp
> relatively recently and decent vim support was quite a barrier for me.
>
> A couple of issues related to building vim:
>
> - had to chmod +x the following files:
> /configure
> /src/mkinstalldirs
> /src/configure
> /src/auto/configure
>
> - export LC_ALL=C (changing only LC_NUMERIC  didn't work for me)
>
> Another thing is that "ecl-config --libs" seems to output /usr/local/lib/ecl
> despite having been configured (and installed
> in) --prefix=/usr/local/ecl-0.9i, ie,
>
> $ /usr/local/ecl-0.9i/bin/ecl-config --libs
> -Wl,--rpath,/usr/local/lib/ecl -L/usr/local/lib/ecl -lecl    -ldl  -lm
>
> This is ecl's bug but it affects the built process. vim's configure/make
> silently ignore their failure to find ecl's libraries and build vim without
> ecl even when configured with --enable-eclinterp.
>
> It took me several builds to track the problem, hopefully reporting this will
> save other people's time (until it's fixed in the makefile and/or
> ecl-config).
>
> Being able to evaluate forms from vim is awesome! I'm kind of puzzled though
> with the output on syntax errors in the buffer window. Is this feature
> work-in-progress or am I supposed to be able to make something out of it?
>
> Thanks a lot and keep up the great work ;)
>
> Serafeim
>
Hi Serafeim, welcome to the Slim-Vim list.
Re the chmod files, I think that might be a Darcs thing - are there
any Darcs experts that care to comment here?  Either way, could you
please add a couple of comments to this page
(http://wiki.alu.org/Slim-Vim-HOWTO) about needing to change
permissions?

Re the ECL config bug, would you mind passing that upstream to the ECL
mailing list?

I'm not sure what output you get on syntax errors though, could you
paste an example to the list?  If you mean the text in the buffer
named "--debug-sv--", then no - that buffer is really just for
developers of Slim-Vim to check out what is going on.

Cheers
Brad