Larry Clapp wrote: > On 2006-01-08, drewc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>John Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Matthew Wilson wrote: >>> >>>>I like the idea of making the swank connection friendly to any >>>>editor, but is there a reason to use scheme in particular? >>> >>>The protocol is basically based on the idea of passing >>>S-expressions back and forth between the editor and the Lisp >>>interpreter. Something based on S-expressions and simple and small >>>enough to be embedded in an editor seems to suggest a small Scheme >>>to me. >> >>Sounds like a job for librep[1] to me. >> >>drewc >> >>[1] http://librep.sourceforge.net/ > > > While anyone who wishes to is of course welcome to add librep or ecl > or anything at all to Vim, librep in particular does not impress me > with its activity. Its fora and mailing lists consist either of > unanswered bugreports or feature requests, or spam. Sawfish, which > uses librep as its extension language, didn't impress me either. > Perhaps they're both just very, very stable ... or maybe they're dead. > > If someone wanted to add a Lisp to Vim, I would recommend either ECL > or clisp. As I've mentioned before, such a task currently exceeds my > supply of free time. :) >
TBH my interest is in jEdit, so I guess I'd have to try adding ABCL to jEdit and porting slime.el to that. Both projects seem actively maintained and documented, I'm tempted, but I want to finish my software renderer, first.. > For anyone waiting with baited breath for SLIMPL and/or SLIM-Vim, I > would recommend that, in the meantime, you check out Emacs with > Easymacs. (Thanks to Peter Heslin, author of Easymacs, for the > information that, while Easymacs doesn't run under XEmacs, the newest > Emacs with GTK looks way better than the Emacs I looked at a year ago. > Debian users: "apt-get -t testing install emacs-snapshot-gtk" (if you > have a "testing" distribution configured in /etc/apt/sources.list; if > you don't and don't know how to do that, Read The Fine Manual, or ask > here).) > > -- Larry > > > _______________________________________________ > Gardeners mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners > _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
