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Why make a Vim plugin instead of a standalone program since it’s read-only?

• cowsandmilk 12y ago
  As a Vim plugin, you get a lot of features of Vim for free (e.g. search, familiar bindings). And the code is only 56 lines. A stand-alone program would likely have less features and be much longer.
• daGrevis 12y ago
  Not everything has to be useful or even sane. Especially on _Hacker_ News. Edit: To clarify, I think this shows what hacking is all about. Playful cleverness and curiosity.
• DougBTX 12y ago
  Most of the functionality is in the xlrd library, think of this as just a frontend.
• mattxxx 12y ago
  because.... vim!
• bcj 12y ago
  It's possible they eventually plan adding write support using xlwt.