On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:10:20 -0500, Robert Lee wrote: > Counterwish #2: Dump VimScript and replace it with EMCAScript (maybe > using SpiderMonkey) so that people don't need to learn a new language > just to change the color scheme or keyboard mappings. Yes, this will > break backwards compatibility. Tough.
This is a windup, right? I mean, who uses ECMAScript other than webmonkeys? Certainly not a majority of Vim users - not even a majority of programmers. If I'm going to have to learn a new language to do things in Vim, I'd rather it were a simple domain-specific one like VimScript. Most of VimScript is just Vim commands anyway. Changing a color scheme or keyboard mappings (the examples you gave) can be done - indeed, normally _are_ done - using basic Vim commands. To throw your own argument back at you, why should I have to learn ECMAScript to do something I already know how to do in Vim (note, _not_ VimScript) anyway? And yes, I have tried to learn ECMAScript (back in the days when it was still known as JavaScript) and it certainly didn't feel easy-to-learn to me, whereas with VimScript I had the basics down in less than a day - certainly enough to write scripts and know where to look if I needed to figure something out. Spencer -- <<< Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines >>> 7:26am up 56 days 14:08, 19 users, load average: 0.42, 0.15, 0.04 Registered Linux User #232457 | LFS ID 11703
