[slimpl] vim asynchronous interrupt facility

[Larry Clapp]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:14:25PM +0100, Christoph Scheurer wrote:
> I just joined the list since I saw your posting on the vim mailing
> list and looked at http://wiki.alu.org/Perl_interface_to_SLIME . I
> am not sure whether this is exactly what you are looking for but I
> have been using a modified version of vim 5.4g that seems to do what
> you want.
> 
[snip]
> 
> It was written as a frontend interface to Mathematica (R) using
> MathLink (R) and an interface program called ml2vim which runs the
> mathematica kernel and communicates with the vim frontend solely by
> exchanging text messages. The patches to vim contain a "child"
> facility which allows vim to run child processes that can
> asynchronously insert text into the vim buffer.

That's an interesting idea.  We'll keep it in mind.  I'm somewhat
leery (at the moment) of an approach that requires the end-user to
either download source and compile it, or install a patched Vim, or
requires us to get our patch into Vim's core distribution.  But feel
free to prod us about it.  :)  Once we get the functionality a little
more fleshed out, or get more people helping with the slimpl project,
we may get a little more ambitious.

-- Larry