[slimpl] Update on vim internals and ECL

[Jim Bailey]

Hello,

Thanks for the very encouraging replies. It seems that whatever method
is used for the final VIM interfacing, something has to be done about
asynchronous events, so I will endevour to join the vim-devel list and
see how the idea of sorting it out is received.

I will let you know how it goes, and if it doesn't I might just post
some patches here for the truly adventurous.

Since the idea of adding ECL as an extension language was met with some
enthusiasm, I have made a patch and some brief instructions available
at http://69.61.72.246/~dgym/ . My direct email address is there to
hopefully curb any off-topic discussions on this list. Right now it is
probably almost as technically viable as Perl for writing
slim[pl/py/cl], with a big plus for being common-lisp and a huge minus
for being not very widespread, tested, etc.

Parallel development of slimpl and slimcl (and slim AJAX something or
other) would probably be advantagous if the:
[editor interface] <-> [slime frontend] <-> [slime backend]
architecture is followed as it would highlight what should be done in
the front end, and what the front end needs to support to be
generically useful. I would definitely be interested in helping out if
I can on the slime frontend if people decide to go that route.

Cheers,
Jim