[slim-vim] slim-vim + motif gui problems

[Brad Beveridge]

On 21/10/06, Alessandro Piras <laynor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the fast news!
> I'd like to help, but I'm moving now my first steps with common lisp... and
> I know nothing of vim scripting! I used to do all of my programming in C,
> and I have discovered now how good Lisp is. Maybe if you give me some well
> defined task for Vial I could try to do it, so I could learn something and
> do something good!
> But better not to rely on my coding abilities I think, because as I said,
> I'm a beginner :)

That's no problem - Vial is my first serious Lisp project too :)  Some
specific Vial tasks that might suit somebody who isn't that
experienced would be
1) grep the code for "ugly" and "todo", that's where I've written some
code quickly and I have the feeling that it isn't very nice.
2) adding new Vim commands (I currently support only the basics, jklh,
d, dd, y, p, 0, $)
3) read over the wiki (http://bradb.nfshost.com/stuff/index.cgi/Vial)
and make sure that what I wrote reflects the actual code, and the
notes in the overall.notes file.

I've just now gone and made Vial somewhat implementation specific -
the ability to use a cursor as a STREAM requires Gray streams, which
every Lisp does differently (trivial-gray-streams didn't cut it).  So
you can either use SBCL to develop with, or add stream support for
your Lisp which is not hard.

If you are interested in helping out on Vial, I can send you a tarball
of where I am at, and request project hosting at commonlisp.net.

How does that sound?

Cheers
Brad