> I was wondering if there was anyone on this list who uses vim (or any > other vi-like editor) for their lisp hacking.
*waves* I cut my teeth on Vi when learning Unix, and feel much more at home with a mode editor. I've tried emacs several times, with and without Viper and Vimpulse, but I just can't get past the key-chording - my forearms quickly remind me that my latent RSI is only _so_ latent. I strongly suspect that if I find myself in need of greater integration with the CL runtime, I'll get a Lispworks license. > I've been using limp for > a while and I was thinking of trying slimv. When asking about this on > the stumpwm mailing list I was told I should really try emacs. It was > even said that emacs and common lisp share more culture. Kinda. They share a lot of history, and emacs is itself written in a dialect of lisp, though it's old and primitive compared to CL. SLIME also apparently provides a lot of useful integration/introspection into the CL runtime, though I've yet to be sold on what it can actually give me that VILisp doesn't. I've tried limp and slim-vim, but have kept going back to VILisp, which still works better for me because apparently my idea of an IDE is having the editor and interactive terminal session on the same virtual desktop: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=221 > I thought this > might be a better forum to discuss the pros and cons of different > editors. Or revive a long-running flamewar, one or the other :) Actually, I'm not so keen on the flamewar part. If other people prefer emacs, that's between them and their carpal tunnels. If you don't try making *me* use it, I won't have to hurt you. Cheers, James _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
