On 2006-01-08, drewc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Connors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Matthew Wilson wrote: >>> I like the idea of making the swank connection friendly to any >>> editor, but is there a reason to use scheme in particular? >> >> The protocol is basically based on the idea of passing >> S-expressions back and forth between the editor and the Lisp >> interpreter. Something based on S-expressions and simple and small >> enough to be embedded in an editor seems to suggest a small Scheme >> to me. > > Sounds like a job for librep[1] to me. > > drewc > > [1] http://librep.sourceforge.net/
While anyone who wishes to is of course welcome to add librep or ecl or anything at all to Vim, librep in particular does not impress me with its activity. Its fora and mailing lists consist either of unanswered bugreports or feature requests, or spam. Sawfish, which uses librep as its extension language, didn't impress me either. Perhaps they're both just very, very stable ... or maybe they're dead. If someone wanted to add a Lisp to Vim, I would recommend either ECL or clisp. As I've mentioned before, such a task currently exceeds my supply of free time. :) For anyone waiting with baited breath for SLIMPL and/or SLIM-Vim, I would recommend that, in the meantime, you check out Emacs with Easymacs. (Thanks to Peter Heslin, author of Easymacs, for the information that, while Easymacs doesn't run under XEmacs, the newest Emacs with GTK looks way better than the Emacs I looked at a year ago. Debian users: "apt-get -t testing install emacs-snapshot-gtk" (if you have a "testing" distribution configured in /etc/apt/sources.list; if you don't and don't know how to do that, Read The Fine Manual, or ask here).) -- Larry _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
