From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T17:17:10+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:52:16PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> What's the motivation behind ruvi?  Your web page (last I looked) was a
> bit bare in this department.

thanks for bringing this up.

yeah the webpage is extremely bare i'd prefer to use the
rubyforge wiki honestly so i'll try and fill it in in the
coming weeks and also provide some easy to find links to it :)

> If you're cloning vim as much as possible, and not adding other features,
> why would a person use ruvi instead of vim?  (Is it the speed? ;P)

its the 'other features' in the base distro, catering particulary
to ruby users that is the idea behind ruvi. be it well thought out
irb / ri integration, or ide like capabilities, i won't say no to
the addition of a plugin as long as its maintainable :)

> If, as I suspect, ruvi will contain the excellent feature of Ruby
> scriptability, I believe the greater outcome would be to patch Vim for
> this feature[1].  Bram would be interested, wouldn't he?  That way, we
> could benefit from Vim's general excellence and years of development, plus
> all the existing Vim scripts.

vim's code base from what i recall is awful.
it has taken me less time to hack a fairly feature complete
clone than it would take me to wrap everything in vim.
vimscript is the native scripting platform and even that
is far from useful.

> If, as is another strong possibility, you're one of those people who just
> has to write a text editor at some point in your life, good luck to you :)
> It's an interesting project to inspect, even if I don't really use it.

first a text editor. next on my list is a programming language :)

thanks for the interest,
Alex