[slim-vim] first try, some issues

[Brad Beveridge]

On 22/07/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:08:58PM -0400, Larry Clapp 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.
>
> I made good progress today.  You wouldn't think calling fileno() would
> cause a segfault, would you?  Well, it does if the pointer to FILE
> that you pass it isn't really a pointer to FILE, but is actually some
> random C int.  :(  Apparently for Windows inet-sockets, ECL does
> non-blocking, unbuffered input, and stores the file descriptor in the
> same place as the FILE* for blocking, buffered input.  That took most
> of the day to track down.  Then I had to realize I *needed* my own
> blocking read & my own buffering, and so I wrote that, and so to sum
> up:
>
> I've successfully sent "(+ 1 1)" to Swank (and gotten the response) in
> native Win32 Vim7.  Hopefully I can do a little clean up tomorrow and
> post a new binary.  But the hard part's done.
>
> -- Larry
Very nice work!  Did you need to manually listen for Swank's response,
or have you implemented callbacks for Win32?  Either way, great work.

Cheers
Brad