[slimpl] some comments about vim internals

[Dmitry Petukhov]

2006/3/3, Larry Clapp <larry at theclapp.org>:
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>
> I think it's worth discussing.  We need to decide what we want: do we
> want Vim, as such, to talk to Swank, or do we want a Lisp-based editor
> with vi-like keybindings (that can talk to Swank)?
>
> It seems like the more Lisp we add to Vim, the closer it gets to
> Emacs.  And part of me says if we acknowledge up front that the road
> leads to Emacs, why not just skip the middle man and go directly to
> Emacs and just hack on Viper?
>
> But ... I've avoided Emacs, in part, because I like *Common* Lisp, and
> see no real benefit to learning (from my point of view) its red-headed
> step-child, Elisp.  And I've read some people complain about the speed
> of Elisp and about its primitive feel.  So building a *Common*
> Lisp-based editor with vi-like keybindings (that can talk to Swank)
> really wouldn't suck.  :)
>

I can say what i don't want to abandon vim in favor of just 'vim-like'
editor with lisp. Not unless this editor have a huge base of various plugins
and large active user community. Just like... vim with ECL !
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