[slim-vim] Slime x ECL (was Re: Starting: problems in process-available-input)

[Brad Beveridge]

On 20/08/06, Tomas Zellerin <zellerin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In theory, there ought to be no relationship between ecl-repl and
> > ecl-slime.  In practise, ecl-slime does appear to need ecl-repl.  I
> > need both for ecl-slime development, but regular users of ecl-slime
> > should not need ecl-repl.  But at the moment they do :)
> > If anybody wanted to figure out why ecl-slime only works when ecl-repl
> > is loaded, I would love to fix that.
> >
> Now I can see that part of my confusion was due to the fact that
> documentation (HOWTO page) mentions --lisp-scratch-- and
> --lisp-repl-output-- while missing --slim-vim-repl--. The first two
> appear to work only with ecl. The pdf documentation recently announced
> is better in this, but I have not found it linked anywhere from the
> HOWTO page (or other pages on slim-vim). What is currently considered
> the proper documentation to use and update? I doubt you want to keep
> both up-to-date.
Yes, documentation is pretty sketchy at the moment to say the least.
I think that Serafeim's PDF document is probably what we would like to
see as the standard documentation.  Serafeim, I see you've used LaTex
- would you consider changing to something easier like Markdown[1] (or
CL-Markdown)?  I know this generates HTML, but you can also a tool[2]
to convert HTML to LaTex, and then people don't need to know Tex to
submit doc patches.  Would you like to see doc patches submitted to
this list, or to you directly?

> I add a plugin I have in ~/.vim/plugin/slime.vim that makes :Slime
> command to do all the magic to connect to lisp backend. Its a trivial
> thing, but may make things easier to start for someone anyway. It does
> not start the backend lisp yet, though.
Thank you, I'll roll this in at the next checkin of Slim-Vim stuff I do.

Cheers
Brad

[1] http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/, or
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-markdown/
[2] http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html