[LUAU] wither VIM?

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Thompson
Which editor has: Built-in spell checking support for nearly 50 languages? A Built-in scripting language, including a profiler for the scripting language? Support for editing files on remote filesystems, browsing of remote directories, zip and tar archives? A built-in grep-like search

Re: [LUAU] wither VIM?

2006-05-15 Thread Tim Newsham
The scripting language is a joke, you can't compare it to elisp (gnu emacs is written in elisp, so the entire is available to elisp programs. VIM's scripting support is more like Visual Basic, the VIM authors decide which bits of the VIM 'machine' to expose to outside scripting languages.

Re: [LUAU] wither VIM?

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Thompson
On May 15, 2006, at 9:05 AM, Tim Newsham wrote: The scripting language is a joke, you can't compare it to elisp (gnu emacs is written in elisp, so the entire is available to elisp programs. VIM's scripting support is more like Visual Basic, the VIM authors decide which bits of the VIM