Tracy R Reed([EMAIL PROTECTED])@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. 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? :) >
No, thank God. I don't want vim to actually have a built-in class browser, console game, news reader, and e-mail client. I don't need a built-in mail reader, because the mail reader talks nicely with vim. It's a lovely thing. Similarly, I want a class browser that can communicate with vim. I would like to use the tool outside of vim, too. Still, there'd need to be a way for vim to tell the tool that you're typing a method name and want to use the class browser for autocompletion. That is what I'd want the plugin to take care of. I know that vim has python, perl, and other bindings that can be used for plugins/extension. Never used it though, so I thought I'd ask about it here. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
