From: Alexander Kellett <ruby-lists@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T17:37:30+09:00
Subject: Re: About ruvi

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 03:36:08PM +0900, Martin DeMello wrote:
> Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au> wrote:
> > [Aimed at Alexander, but I'm sure others will be interested.]
> > 
> > What's the motivation behind ruvi?  Your web page (last I looked) was a
> > bit bare in this department.
> 
> I'm not Alexander, but one immediate benefit I can see is it'll give us
> a vimlike component embeddable in ruby apps. AFAIK, vim proper is rather
> hard to embed.

yes. and exceedingly hard to provide a gui for.
thusly the lack of a good kvim. bram never even
bothered to apply the patch set afaik.

anyone ever seen a refactoring plugin for vim?
ruvi already has one. (rrb based)

fancy a qt frontend? 300 lines of code for the 
current version. fancy a gtk2 frontend? will
come to around the same as soon as i get the
energy to do it :)

Alex