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Phill – 1991 is a lot better than being stuck in the 70’s programming in C like I was previously! One of the biggest wins was mapping to M-x 🙂 I don’t think I’ll ever change to a non-modal editing style, but I suspect I’ll eventually find a hybrid style where less frequent commands are the plain Emacs commands & the actual editing is Vi style. Jon – I use vimpulse for the day to day editing stuff & I’m slowly starting to use the less offensive Emacs bindings. Homero – Smalltalk & Erlang are on my list of languages to try out when I get time. So it consumes you and the ascension to Lisp begins. In summary, all vi users who refuse to convert are idiots. I am a big fan of the vi/vim editing model (just see my website), but I totally agree that emacs’ architecture makes much more sense. Who knows maybe one day you try out Squeak and Smalltalk 🙂ĭo you use viper (or vimpulse) for the keybindings, or have you switched to emacs keybindings? Every time I play with functional languages I wish I started with emacs ( and coincidentally cherish every smoke break ).

Glad to see there’s hope left for a vim fiend like me. Sigh, vim and cigarettes - two habits that I’ve tried to kick numerous times with absolutely no success.

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Heh heh … it a sweet moment when you finally get it – “…it’s full of stars” You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ģ4 Responses to “How a Vim user converts to Emacs” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Jat 6:38 pm and is filed under Code, Editors, Emacs, Lisp, Programming tools, Vim. – If you’ve ever had the misfortune to mess around with Vim’s internals, you’ll probably understand why it is hard to change. – I’ll post about open systems in the future. If you want to know what an open, malleable, dynamic system is like – use Emacs & write some Emacs Lisp. I used to be a Vim bigot, so I’m sure somebody will say that Vim can do all the things that Emacs can do. And now that I actually grok that it seems crazy to me to choose to use closed systems. This means you should be able to inspect how the app works, tinker with it, see your results right away. The second factor for me choosing Emacs is that I want to work with open and dynamic applications. It’s hard to describe, and in-fact I’m not sure that you can really convince people that open systems are better – it is something that you really need to find for yourself. The open system that I wanted to work with was already right in front of me in the form of Emacs, but I hadn’t seen it! I was looking for something better than C, but it took me 6+ months to really see it. I could edit my Viper changes and instantly test them, instantly see the effects. I finally started to grok what these Lispers were talking about. And I agreed, I couldn’t wait to start working with a Lisp system, with a proper editor (Vim) and a good debugger (Slim-Vim) – if only I could get Slim-Vim working.Īs I got more disheartened with ever getting Vim to work properly, I tinkered with my Viper changes some more.

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As I learned Lisp & tried to make Slim-Vim work I read a lot about software design using Lisp, about how open, extensible and malleable systems are the best way to work. The only way of working that I knew was the C way – compile/link/run. At the start of the Slim-Vim project, I was very new to Common Lisp and still thinking very much in a C style mindset. Lets look at my programming philosophy over this period of time (6+ months). It was at this point that I had unknowingly set my path.

There were a couple of things that I didn’t like about Viper, so I added a couple of functions. To get by while in Emacs, I enabled Viper mode – an Emacs mode that emulates Vi keys. While working on Slim-Vim I needed to get familiar with what I was trying to provide, so I used Slime on Emacs.

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There is a lot of code in there that works in a strange manner (likely for performance/portability reasons), and we basically got stuck. Vim is not designed to be easily extended. We managed to get a fair way there before running into painful problems. We started by integrating a Common Lisp system, ECL into Vim and exposing some of Vim’s functions. I worked on a project called Slim-Vim that tried to emulate the interface side of Slime in Vim. One part of Slime resides on the Lisp side, and a larger part resides on the Emacs side as an interface. My primary motivation for starting to use Emacs was so I could use the Slime Lisp debugger. For many years I thought that the heretics of the Emacs clan were clearly insane – the followers of Vim were obviously following the True Path.

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