Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-07-14 Thread Nico
On Jun 29, 6:20 pm, Ted cecinemapasdera...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. . If I

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-07-07 Thread Tony Mechelynck
On 30/06/10 03:20, Ted wrote: Hello folks, I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some vim

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-07-07 Thread Ted
Regarding the terminology: My point of confusion with the term a vim script is that, in addition to bearing a similarity to the vimscript or VimL programming language, this can imply either of two other things: - a package, downloadable from http://vim.org/scripts/script.php?

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-07-01 Thread Marc Weber
Hi Ted: You're writing code for a system you've been using. You say its not ready for release. Still you care much about portability and other users (?). One design goal should be : Never over engineer. Do what you have to do because things are going to change anyway. Such a change could be a

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-07-01 Thread AK
On 06/30/2010 07:01 PM, Ted wrote: Thanks to all for providing input on my question. I realized that the demographic is a bit more restricted than the general population of vim users; it is that portion thereof who actually install vim modules at all. It's informative to learn that there are

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-30 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Wed, June 30, 2010 6:05 am, sc wrote: i'd like to count myself among those who like a lean build with no extra languages compiled in and as few plugins running as possible whatever your modules do i would not consider them if they require a python enabled vim Same is true for me. On

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-30 Thread Marc Weber
Hi Ted, Go for Python because VimL can be a lock-in (speed issues if you want to do a lot). Can you tell more about what you're going to implement? Maybe you want to get some ideas from my sbt plugin: www.github.com/MarcWeber/vim-addon-sbt It mocks Vim functionality so that you can test it

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-30 Thread Matthew Winn
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:34:16 +0200, Marc Weber marco-owe...@gmx.de wrote: Go for Python because VimL can be a lock-in (speed issues if you want to do a lot). Isn't it rather the opposite? If something requires Python it's at the mercy of the availability of Python and the ability of Vim to

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-30 Thread Ted
Thanks to all for providing input on my question. I realized that the demographic is a bit more restricted than the general population of vim users; it is that portion thereof who actually install vim modules at all. It's informative to learn that there are some in that group who would not be

percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-29 Thread Ted
Hello folks, I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some vim modules, to be released for general

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-29 Thread AK
On 06/29/2010 09:20 PM, Ted wrote: Hello folks, I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-29 Thread George V. Reilly
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:32 PM, AK andrei@gmail.com wrote: On 06/29/2010 09:20 PM, Ted wrote: I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-29 Thread sc
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 20:20:27 Ted wrote: I'm wondering if there are some figures somewhere that would provide some sort of estimate of the percentage of vim users who have python installed, or would be free of objections to installing it if a module required it. I'm working on some

Re: percentage of vim users running python

2010-06-29 Thread bill lam
I think you need just release your utility program, if people really want it, they will not mind installing python. I personally aren't a fans of python and will not bother to use vim with python albeit python is installed here in linux. -- regards,