[slim-vim] Closing SBCL while connected to slim-vim

[Brad Beveridge]

On 26/03/07, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:03:43AM -0500, William Robinson wrote:
> > I've recently downloaded slim-vim. Thanks for your efforts on this.
> > However, I have a problem that kind of a show-stopper for me with
> > it. If I close SBCL while vim+ecl+etc is connected to it, vim will
> > spin in a loop (it seems) and lock up, taking up all the processor
> > time. I have to just kill -9 vim. Does anyone else get this?
>
> That does ring a bell.  I'll check into it.
>
> > I've been vimming for maybe 5 years or so and Lisping for still less
> > than 3 months. I'm really loving Common Lisp, but I do need my vim.
> > :) I have been using VIlisp pretty well though. So, registering my
> > interest with this project aswell and giving the list a poke! :)
>
> VIlisp, Emacs, or one of the commercial Lisps (most of which offer
> evaluation versions) would probably be a better choice at this point.
> Slim-vim is unstable and not well supported.  Brad Beveridge, the
> primary coder, has defected to Emacs for most of his Lisping, and I
> have about one hour a month to fiddle with slim-vim, and no one else
> has stepped forward.  It sucks, but there it is.

I'm afraid it's true :)  However, I haven't defected from the Vi style
modal key bindings.  I use a pretty heavily modified Viper (darcs it
from http://common-lisp.net/project/vial/darcs/extended-viper/ if you
like).
And, I'm afraid to say that at the end of the day the Emacs approach
to extension is the way to go.  I hate to be disparaging of Vim, as I
have a deep affection for it, but Vim script sucks big time in
comparison to Elisp.
It would be nice to have a Vi style editor written in Lisp, or with
Lisp deeply embedded like Emacs does - but then you basically have
Emacs with Vi style bindings & without all the Emacs library addons.
If you view Emacs as a decent editing substrate & horrible (but
fixable) keybindings, then you don't feel as bad about using it :)

Cheers
Brad