[slimpl] some comments about vim internals

[Brad Beveridge]

On 3/2/06, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:
> Just a few comments from the cheap seats: Before you can decide
> whether #3 is worth the rather large amount of pain it would entail,
> it seems that you'll need to figure out how much of the .el code is
> essentially Emacs UI code that is going to have to be rewritten to
Good points.  I'm not even close to sure of how accurate my thoughts
are - I'm too green at both Lisp and Slime at the moment.  So I'm glad
the cheap seats are commenting :)  I should say that although I am
advocating these ideas, I'm only doing it from a "hey, is this a good
idea?" point of view - I really do not have the expertise to make a
decent argument for any thoughts yet.

> So since you're poking around looking at slime.el maybe you can come
> up with a rough break down of what all is in there, split into these
> two categories--functionality that is tied to the particular UI
> technology of Emacs and functionality that just happens to be written
> in Elisp but which is general purpose.
Yep, I'm doing that very slowly at the moment.  I like the idea of
dividing slime up into Emacs UI code and ELisp worker code, I'll take
that approach from now on in my notes.  As you say, most of the worker
code could live in the Swank image - maybe the Slime guys would be
amenable to that.

Cheers
Brad