> Here's a question - are people quite tied to Vim? Why not write another > vi-alike in Common Lisp? > > I could see a couple different ways of doing this. One would be to write a > good interface for ANSI color terminals, and use that. Another would be to > use a graphics toolkit - one of the various GTK+ bindings, or maybe Swing or > SWT from ABCL. > > It would make it easy to get the indentation right, too. I started writing a vi-a-like editor in CL as a learning project. It could edit text & I stopped. I think that i VI alike in CL would be nice, but far more work than this project. Vim has many neat features that would take a lot of effort to clone.
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