From: Tim X Date: 2007-04-16T17:25:04+09:00 Subject: Re: IDEs, syntactic vs. semantic highlighting, etc. Chad Perrin writes: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:50:13PM +0900, Tim X wrote: >> Chad Perrin writes: >> >> > >> > Isn't that what Smalltalk does? It combines the language and the IDE in >> > one convenient package. I'm sure I've seen a couple other languages do >> > the same sort of thing, but at the moment I'm drawing a blank on what >> > they might have been, specifically. >> > >> > Anyway, I'd rather code Lisp in Vim any day of the week. >> >> There have been some lisp dialects that combined the IDE with the language >> similar to what smalltalk does. >> >> With respect to coding in lisp, the combination of emacs and SLIME is a very >> nice environment. I believe there is also a project that is developing >> integration with SWANK (the lisp side of the emacs/slime combination) to VI, so >> that you can get a similar integration, but with VI as the front end >> editor/driver > > If that's Vim, and not just vi, I'm sure I'll be all over it. > > -- Yes, I should have written vim - I'm pretty sure its vim (as opposed to other 'vi' clones). Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au