I think my biggest gripe with vim is vimscript... and next is that other languages are optionally compiled in.
VIM with only lua, or, since regexps are weird in lua, guile, or heck, even a fast ECMAscript but garrenteed to be the same on all platforms would be great...
I've pondered the idea of a "VIM redux" project, not being backwards compatible, but throwing out old cruft, such as vimscript, "embed all the languages but unequally so you can never tell what plugins a system will support!", vi-compatible default mode, and put on some different defaults like syntax highlighting, etc.
I don't think I'll ever like vimscript... so maybe I should buy the book. :-)
yes vimscript is awful, and I wanted to share a way of dealing with it.
Evil is an emacs package that "implements vim on top of emacs". By using that you basically exchange vimscript for elisp (At least I, just started 'using vim' and didn't have any problems). I'm not saying it will fit everybody, just that I didn't actually knew that the possibility existed - so I'm mentioning it.
I've been entertaining the idea of vim with Guile for a few weeks now, but I figure I need to compile it since I couldn't find any distribution for that.
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I think my biggest gripe with vim is vimscript... and next is that other languages are optionally compiled in.
VIM with only lua, or, since regexps are weird in lua, guile, or heck, even a fast ECMAscript but garrenteed to be the same on all platforms would be great...
I've pondered the idea of a "VIM redux" project, not being backwards compatible, but throwing out old cruft, such as vimscript, "embed all the languages but unequally so you can never tell what plugins a system will support!", vi-compatible default mode, and put on some different defaults like syntax highlighting, etc.
I don't think I'll ever like vimscript... so maybe I should buy the book. :-)
yes vimscript is awful, and I wanted to share a way of dealing with it. Evil is an emacs package that "implements vim on top of emacs". By using that you basically exchange vimscript for elisp (At least I, just started 'using vim' and didn't have any problems). I'm not saying it will fit everybody, just that I didn't actually knew that the possibility existed - so I'm mentioning it.
I've been entertaining the idea of vim with Guile for a few weeks now, but I figure I need to compile it since I couldn't find any distribution for that.
I've found that Python is quite often available in Vims out there.