[slim-vim] appending confusion and input-listener problems

[Brad Beveridge]

> It certainly feels like a waste of time trying to fix it on an old code
> branch and so I suggest that the vim+async+ecl stuff be ported/worked
> into vim 7.x where things might be better - or they might be just as
> bad, or maybe even worse, but at least I will have more incentive...
I agree, now that Vim7 is out there isn't too much point struggling with 6.4

>
> I will try and get around to this at some point, but as always I can't
> say when as I am still travelling at the moment (and will be for the
> next 6 months) and don't have much time or internet access.
>
> So sorry that this is still a problem, hopefully at least one of the
> supported guis is available on most platforms, for the time being the
> gui is a requirement.

Just to be clear here, you think that if I build the GUI version of
Vim, I will no longer get the strange crashes when listening
asyncronously to a socket and piping output to a buffer?
If so, guess I'd better figure out how to build a GUI Vim :)

Cheers
Brad