> 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.

Brad
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