Hi! On Wed, 30 May 2007, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Tobias Klausmann wrote: > > Hi! On Wed, 30 May 2007, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > [...] > >> Hmm... when's the day when Vim will be implemented in Lisp, so if the > >> boss wants everyone to use Emacs, we can obey and still have the look, > >> feel and functionality of Vim? (Not necessarily the speed, though.) > > Of course, that has already been done. It's called viper: > > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/viper.html > > Viper Is a Package for Emacs Rebels. > > Nice Backronym, too. > > Regards, > > Tobias > > PS: I don't know if it's pure lisp. But hey, I don't need it :) > > Neither do I know, neither do I need it, and Emacs-script is rumored to be > Lisp, but since I don't use Emacs (and never did, except maybe for just a > few minutes until I found out it wasn't the editor for me), and never used > Lisp either (I just know it uses way too much parentheses for sanity) so I > don't rightly know.
The one use case I know of was binary-patching UUCP back in the day. Back then, vi barfed on line lengths >255. But emacs was "just unusable for an admin!". So there was a small howto on installing viper in emacs in order to patch the UUCP binary. Emacs for line length, viper for usability. That howto even made it into a magazine. Regards, Tobias -- In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes.
