[slim-vim] first try, some issues

[Brad Beveridge]

On 21/07/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 08:32:06PM +0100, Jim Bailey wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:22:08 -0700
> > "Brad Beveridge" <brad.beveridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Oh, I see.  Did Jim even add support for callbacks in the Win32
> > > mainloop?
> >
> > I didn't - I don't have a windows box....
> >
> [snip]
> > Does anyone else have the resources and desire to do this? It really
> > shouldn't be a lot of work, maybe less than a few dozen lines of
> > code most of which will just be copied from netbeans.c, and I am
> > very willing to help out as much as possible.
>
> I can do it.  I have a fair knowledge of C.  :)  I'll email you if I
> have any questions / problems.
>
> > P.S. sorry for that huge bug w.r.t. the callback handling and GC,
> > that was very careless of me and I know it caused a fair amount of
> > frustration.
>
> No worries.  The fact that it took us all together a long time to
> solve implies that we might well have made the same error.  And even
> if not, wtf, you know?  It's not like we can really throw stones.
> This is all volunteer work.  You do the best you can in the time you
> have, and that's that.  If it weren't for you we'd still be using
> SLIMPL and I doubt we'd have come nearly this far, had as much fun
> along the way, or attracted as much attention.  You single-handedly[1]
> bridged the gap between Vim-written-in-C and Emacs-written-in-Elisp.
> Thanks to you we now have an editor scriptable in Common Lisp, and
> compilable Common Lisp, at that.  Those poor Emacs bastards have to
> (*cough*) limp[2] along on bytecode interpreted Elisp.
>
> So, you know, don't sweat it!  :)
Larry said it far more eloquently than I would, so I'll just agree :)
You did a fantastic job Jim.

Cheers
Brad