On 25/01/10 06:13, Peng Yu wrote:
I have learned neither the language for vim scripting nor the language
for emacs scripting (which is lisp, right?). (I know mit-scheme, but I
have never used emacs) May I ask the following questions?
I know Lisp is very powerful. Is the language in vim as powerful?
For what type of tasks, it is more difficult to do in vim scripting
language than lisp in emacs? And for what type of tasks, it is easier
to do in vim scripting language than lisp in emacs?
I don't know. I've seen some Lisp program sources, which AFAICT looked
like a soup of parentheses. Vim script, OTOH, is (to my mind) much
easier to read, and its commands are the "ex-commands" which you can
type at the command-line (where you get by hitting a colon in Normal
mode), including the commands you define. I'd say Vim script belongs to
the family of "structured languages" descended from ALGOL and which
includes C (I think) and Unix shell script.
See for instance ":help design-not" for a few examples of what Vim is
*not* meant to do.
Best regards,
Tony.
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