Re:Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]
by justinmk on Sunday October 21, 2018 @08:48PM
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> This is the original vi philosophy. It means you don't have to rewrite anything.
Users will need to rewrite many things, if they use multiple platforms.
> Any new program you install, if it can send/receive text on STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR, then you can use it in vi.
Except even the unix toolspace is not cross-platform, despite POSIX.
Minimalism is good, but the OSes failed to provide good, composable, cross-platform tools.
By the way, Neovim's :terminal command enables more scripting and re-use of the many unix tools. w3m and lynx are much more useful if you can overlay editor keybindings over them instead of writing a pile of code to use their (insufficient) CLI APIs.
Users will need to rewrite many things, if they use multiple platforms.
> Any new program you install, if it can send/receive text on STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR, then you can use it in vi.
Except even the unix toolspace is not cross-platform, despite POSIX.
Minimalism is good, but the OSes failed to provide good, composable, cross-platform tools.
By the way, Neovim's :terminal command enables more scripting and re-use of the many unix tools. w3m and lynx are much more useful if you can overlay editor keybindings over them instead of writing a pile of code to use their (insufficient) CLI APIs.