The Evolution of Lisp Editing in Vim: From 2004 to 2019
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Summary
Susam Pal reflects on the evolution of Lisp editing in Vim over the past 15 years. In 2004, there were no good plugins for structured editing of Lisp s-expressions or interactive programming with embedded REPLs/debuggers. The situation improved significantly with the development of two key Vim plugins: Slimv (over 10 years old) and Vlime (less than 3 years old as of 2019), both of which support interactive Lisp programming within Vim.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledFifteen years ago, writing Lisp code in Vim was an odd adventure.
There were no good plugins for Vim that assisted in structured editing of Lisp s-expressions or allowed interactive programming by embedding a Lisp Read-Eval-Print-Loop (REPL) or a debugger within the editor.
The situation has improved a lot since then.
In the last ten years, we have seen active development of two Vim plugins named Slimv and Vlime.
Both support interactive
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