Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi

Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by irremediable on Sunday June 01, 2014 @06:46AM (#7828756)

I'm very excited about Neovim: among other things, it's going to allow the use of alternatives to VimScript, and a proper GUI.

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Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by pyre on Sunday June 01, 2014 @07:05AM (#7828787)

There are already alternatives to VimL. You can use Python, Ruby, etc.

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Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by thristian on Sunday June 01, 2014 @08:12AM (#7828904)

"Alternatives". VimL lets you set and inspect options, invoke other functions, all kinds of stuff. The other language bindings (particularly Python, but I assume this is true of the others) give you a high-level list of open files, the ability to send individual key-strokes to Vim and the ability to eval a VimL expression. All the vaguely-complex plugins I've seen have some sort of algorithmic core implemented in another language, and a whole bunch of VimL to wire the core up to Vim.

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Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by sigzero on Sunday June 01, 2014 @02:11PM (#7830067)

I was wondering when this would pop up. Smh

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Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by irremediable on Sunday June 01, 2014 @05:24PM (#7830736)

What does "smh" mean?

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Re:Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi by ovechtrick on Sunday June 01, 2014 @05:37PM (#7830783)

Shaking My Head

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