Excerpts from ZyX's message of Tue Jul 12 00:09:10 +0200 2011: > You once pointed me to Yi, why you are not using it as much as vim? I guess > answer is written above. Yes - but he's talking about adding Vim features to a foreign editor. Now implement all the syn*() specific hacks - good luck. That's what I'm talking about. It will take *lots* of dedication to make a plugins like matchit.zip (a reason why I'm using Vim and not Yi) works..
I use Vim because I had already learned a lot of Vim and VimL. Vim implements many nifty features such as folding. Yi is still in a very early stage. if you look at history of Yi compraed to eg jedit you'll agree on that. But it also has its strength and advantages. And those will grow over time. I don't want to count the hours I've spend trying to get some kind of "run process in background" implementation which would have taken me about 40min in Yi only. Also you can't compare F# to Haskell. Haskell does not have OO. You can emulate it. But that's getting ugly. I'll not start flaming more than I did. All I want to say :emulating Vim looks like being an easy task. But think about feedkeys() and things like return "\<esc>" and you'll die implementing that for VS (or give up on it which is more likely). If someone proofs me wrong I'll be happy.. Those stuff *is* used in plugins. About JIT and LLVM: You're right. I just wanted to point out that the long running future of Vim should not be VimL anymore because people have to learn it. Most people can already write some JS .. And JS won't die cause its standard in webbrowsers. Its as simple as that. Marc Weber -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
