[slimpl] How to help Slimpl

[Brad Beveridge]

On 2/24/06, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:36:33AM -0800, Brad Beveridge wrote:
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> Ah.  I misunderstood you before.  Yeah, that'd work.
I probably wasn't as clear as I could be :)

>
> I imagined the Netbeans listener just writing raw s-expressions into
> the Vim buffer, like Swank does with Emacs, and then Vim would have to
> poll the buffer for changes and parse it and so on, like Slime does
> (except Slime doesn't poll), and I thought that Vim would still need
> some way of knowing that the buffer has changed.  But you meant
> something else.  :)
Yah, this setup basically just used Vim as fancy input/output.  All
the hard "talk to swank" work happens within the Lisp image (which
means we can write the debugger in Lisp).

>
> > I may come back to this plan when I understand slime.el better - if
> > it is reasonably easy to pull slime.el into a CL environment that
> > has had macros/functions defined to make it Emacs-like then it may
> > be the way to go.
>
> That'd be pretty cool, too.  :)
>
> -- Larry
I think it would be super cool to write an Emacs-mode Lisp sandbox
that could run slime.el, save us some work & not need to change Slime
or Vim.

Brad