[slim-vim] Question about FFI priorities

Larry Clapp larry at theclapp.org
Mon Jun 26 16:02:50 CDT 2006


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:46:38AM -0700, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> I may be in a unique situation here, I'm trying to do
> some Vim scripting in Lisp without having done any Vim scripting
> before.  These kind of utility functions would really strengthen the
> Vim FFI, IMHO.  I'm really liking the Lisp functions that you've
> provided, I think their use is generally pretty obvious just from
> the name and argument names.  For example, the flag names in
> VIM:SEARCH are way more obvious than what Vim provides with ":help
> search"

Yeah.  Lisp is just flat-out more expressive than Vim-script, which is
just one of the reasons I'd so like to do more of my Vim scripting in
CL.

Maybe eventually my .vimrc will say merely 

  ecl (load "/home/lmc/.vimrc.lisp")

:)

-- Larry



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