begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:22:01AM -0700: > Wade Curry wrote: > > What would be the difference between extending eclipse or emacs, > > and writing a plugin for vim? Are there significant differences? > > Yes. When I started using vim it wasn't extensible. It barely had a > vimrc.
I probably have a very early vim somewhere on a Fred Fish disk. If I can find the box, I'll see if I can't find something about early VIM. :) > It has come a long way since then. I have looked at vim's > extension language and it is interesting but it's no lisp. :) Emacs was > written in lisp to be extensible with lisp. Nearly everything is exposed > in lisp. Emacs extensibility is legendary. You don't see any mail or > news readers for vim do you? :) That's 'cuz vim was built by UNIX weenies, who believe in tying together lots of small tools, and Emacs was built by non-UNIX weenies, who wanted a development platform. Vi(m) is used by many different mail clients and newreaders. I don't know quite how I feel about how much has been crammed into vim. Emulating emacs doesn't seem like a sensible approach... -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
