Hello, List, Last month I announced that Jim Bailey had linked Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) with Vim, and that the Slimpl project had abandoned (or at least put on hold) the Perl module to talk to Swank.
Since then, several things have happened. * Jim Bailey, Eirik Nygaard, and I have all put up publicly available Darcs repositories with the patched Vim source. See http://wiki.alu.org/Slim-Vim-Repos . * We voted to shut down the old mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and opened a new one ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with a name more in line with the project goals. A minor thing, admittedly, but better now than later. Slim-vim currently has 25 subscribers. See http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/slim-vim . * I released ecl-repl.vim, which provides a primitive ECL REPL within Vim, and Vim keyboard mappings to talk to it. ecl-repl.vim replicates much of the functionality of VILisp (and fixes some long-standing bugs in it), all within Vim. See http://www.lispniks.com/pipermail/slim-vim/2006-March/000034.html . * Brad Beveridge has compiled Vim+ECL on Mac OSX/Intel (I think; maybe it was only ECL). * I've compiled Vim+ECL on Windows/Cygwin. In the coming months, we want to take slime.el and get it to run in ECL in Vim. Ideally, we won't have to alter slime.el very much, but I suspect that that dream won't come true; slime.el has a lot of Emacs-specific code wrapped up in it (oddly enough ;). So we've sketched the beginning of an architecture that will allow us to separate Slime into a front end and a back end; the back end will talk to Swank, and the front end will talk to the editor. In parallel with that, we'll write a front-end for Vim. We have yet to contact the Slime developers about any of this. We wanted to have some actual code to bring to the table, and also some architectural ideas that would benefit the Slime code base even without considering a Vim interface. Please feel free to join the Slim-Vim list to discuss the project, or ask questions here. -- Larry Clapp Slim-Vim project champion _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
