Saluton J.A.J. :)

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:17:07 +0100, J.A.J. Pater dixit:
> Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado schreef:
> > Anyway, I don't think that plugins is a good way of adding power to
> > an editor. If only gedit was programmable in the same way of Vim...
> >   
> Doesn't vim do plugins also? As far as I understand it you can use
> python together with vim and with gedit. But again it's not the same:
> Vim has it's own "language" which (to be honest) I don't find really
> attractive

I didn't choose the correct wording here. I meant "plugins" as in
"things you *have to* program externally in another language" versus the
good "the editor has its own language for extensions".

A plugin system requiring compiling the plugins doesn't look good to me,
but any embedded interpreter is OK. This said, I prefer the editor to
use an (scriptable) standard language instead of its own language. That
way you don't have to learn a new language just to configure the editor.
In short, for writing Vim extensions I would prefer Python and not
Vimscript, but that's my personal choice.

In the end, learning a new language once you already know many is not a
great deal.

And BTW, it's good to know that gedit plugins can be written in Python,
I didn't know that. Anyway I'm afraid that if I ever try to write a
gedit plugin it would be for making it more "vimmie". I don't think it
is worth the effort, I suppose ;)

Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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