Anoop Thomas Mathew wrote: > What's your opinion about a project in VIM as an on the fly > code checker.
I thought I'd better not spam the list with my opinion when someone else mentioned this project, but I can't resist this invitation. I would prefer energy was spent on bug fixing and reducing the todo list. I haven't used Microsoft Visual Basic for quite a while, but even with its excellent and instantaneous code checking, the first thing I had to do was disable its syntax checking. Even when I wrote code in Vim and then pasted it into VB, I had to turn off syntax checking while tweaking because syntax checking IS ANNOYING. Of course many people like syntax checking, but if I were to guess which group in society liked it the least, I would pick Vim users. At any rate, if you want to give it a try, I would suggest working out how to prototype the system without much attention to prettiness because achieving satisfactory performance might be very hard. I can't imagine how you could quickly check syntax without sharing knowledge between the editor and the compiler (so the compiler doesn't have to check everything). No idea how that could be achieved. OTOH by the time the project is finished, computers may have speeded up quite a bit<g>. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
