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Vim Slime: A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)

49 points by tolitius 15y ago

astine 15y ago
Neat, but not quite the same thing as Slime. Slime also, provides hinting and autocompletion based on the running Lisp image, debugging restarts, namespace resolution and other features. This seems more general though, and clearly has the biggest feature nailed.
- joliveira 15y ago
  Yes, this is more general and might be useful for other stuff. For an actual slime alternative for vim there is slimv, Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 I have been toying with Common Lisp using slimv quite successfully.
jlongster 15y ago
That's not really SLIME. It's more like Emacs' comint-mode which powers all the functionality for sending code around in Emacs. http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode SLIME is much more than just sending code. It's a full-fledged development environment with commands for inspecting variables, viewing threads, stepping, viewing backtraces, etc.
rincewind 15y ago
The name is confusing. Vim-slime does not speak the swank protocol. But another plugin for vim, called slimv, does. You could also use slime in vim with a rube-goldberg-esque combination of eclim (http://http://eclim.org/ http://http://eclim.org/) and CUSP (http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm).
francoisdevlin 15y ago
There's also slimv, another swank client in VIM. Here's a video using it with Clojure https://vimeo.com/38372260 https://vimeo.com/38372260
- Haderlump 15y ago
  I use Slimv with Clojure, and love it! You get most of the slime commands, like macroexpand and a REPL in a vim buffer, with doc lookup etc. It even comes packaged with paredit for Vim. After the most recent bug fixes it has gotten a lot faster, so make sure you get the latest version from https://bitbucket.org/kovisoft/slimv/ https://bitbucket.org/kovisoft/slimv/ - version 0.9.5 on vim.org still has a bug that causes it too slow down.
idoh 15y ago
I use vim-slime every day and am mainly happy with it. It is a little annoying to have to set up screen for it, I wish I knew how to script screen better but the docs are pretty opaque.
- merijnv 15y ago
  vim-slime apparently also works with tmux, which has a much more understandable documentation in my experience. Might be worth taking a look?
  - idoh 15y ago
    tmux is something that I've been meaning to take a look at. It's hard once something gets muscle-memoried in though, you know what I mean?
    - cschneid 15y ago
      tmux keys all remap pretty nicely. The recent tmux book to come out is pretty decent as an intro primer to tmux, getting you going pretty quick
      - idoh 15y ago
        Is this the book? http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
      - merijnv 15y ago
        I believe there's even a "screen-compatible" default config file that ships with tmux.

49 points by tolitius 15y ago

Neat, but not quite the same thing as Slime. Slime also, provides hinting and autocompletion based on the running Lisp image, debugging restarts, namespace resolution and other features. This seems more general though, and clearly has the biggest feature nailed.

joliveira 15y ago
Yes, this is more general and might be useful for other stuff. For an actual slime alternative for vim there is slimv, Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2531 I have been toying with Common Lisp using slimv quite successfully.

jlongster 15y ago

That's not really SLIME. It's more like Emacs' comint-mode which powers all the functionality for sending code around in Emacs. http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode SLIME is much more than just sending code. It's a full-fledged development environment with commands for inspecting variables, viewing threads, stepping, viewing backtraces, etc.

rincewind 15y ago

The name is confusing. Vim-slime does not speak the swank protocol. But another plugin for vim, called slimv, does. You could also use slime in vim with a rube-goldberg-esque combination of eclim (http://http://eclim.org/ http://http://eclim.org/) and CUSP (http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm).

francoisdevlin 15y ago

There's also slimv, another swank client in VIM. Here's a video using it with Clojure https://vimeo.com/38372260 https://vimeo.com/38372260

Haderlump 15y ago
I use Slimv with Clojure, and love it! You get most of the slime commands, like macroexpand and a REPL in a vim buffer, with doc lookup etc. It even comes packaged with paredit for Vim. After the most recent bug fixes it has gotten a lot faster, so make sure you get the latest version from https://bitbucket.org/kovisoft/slimv/ https://bitbucket.org/kovisoft/slimv/ - version 0.9.5 on vim.org still has a bug that causes it too slow down.

idoh 15y ago

I use vim-slime every day and am mainly happy with it. It is a little annoying to have to set up screen for it, I wish I knew how to script screen better but the docs are pretty opaque.

merijnv 15y ago
vim-slime apparently also works with tmux, which has a much more understandable documentation in my experience. Might be worth taking a look?
- idoh 15y ago
  tmux is something that I've been meaning to take a look at. It's hard once something gets muscle-memoried in though, you know what I mean?
  - cschneid 15y ago
    tmux keys all remap pretty nicely. The recent tmux book to come out is pretty decent as an intro primer to tmux, getting you going pretty quick
    - idoh 15y ago
      Is this the book? http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
    - merijnv 15y ago
      I believe there's even a "screen-compatible" default config file that ships with tmux.