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vim-slime
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jpalardy / vim-slime

vim-slime

A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)

27Distinct people
31Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.1KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year31 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-03-26 13:09:11 UTC to 2026-05-24 10:50:28 UTC.

0123452012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

Read the project’s introduction
vim-slime Demo What is vim-slime? What is SLIME? SLIME is an Emacs plugin to turn Emacs into a Lisp IDE. You can type text in a file, send it to a live REPL, and avoid having to reload all your code every time you make a change. So, what is vim-slime? vim-slime is a humble attempt at getting _some_ of the SLIME features into Vim. It works with any REPL and isn't tied to Lisp. Grab some text and send it to a target: The target contains a REPL, maybe Clojure, R or python. If you can type text into it, vim-slime can send text to it. Why do this? Because you want the benefits of a REPL (instant feedback, no need to reload ...) and the benefits of using Vim (familiar environment, syntax highlighting, persistence ...). More details in the blog post. Targets Configure vim-slime for your desired target: " for all buffers let g:slime_target = "tmux" " and/or as a buffer-level override let b:slime_target = "wezterm" " if not explicitly configured, it defaults to `screen` Many targets are supported, check their documentation for details: conemu dtach kitty neovim screen — default tmux vimterminal wezterm whimrepl x11 zellij Installation Use your favorite package manager, or use Vim's built-in package support (since Vim 7.4.1528): mkdir -p ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start cd ~/.vim/pack/plugins/start git clone https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime.git You can try vim-slime in Docker before committing to anything else. Usage Put your cursor over the text you want to send and type: ctrl-c ctrl-c --- the same as slime (You can just hold ctrl and double-tap c.) The current paragraph — what would be selected if you typed vip — is automatically selected. To control exactly what is sent, you can manually select text before calling vim-slime. Vim Style Mappings To send text using vim-style mappings, such as slime operator+motion or slime operator+text object see the appropriate section of the advanced configuration documentation. Config prompt vim-slime needs to know where to send your text, it will prompt you. It will remember your answers and won't prompt you again. If you want to reconfigure, type: ctrl-c v --- mnemonic: "variables" or call: :SlimeConfig Language Support vim-slime might have to modify its behavior according to the language or REPL you want to use. Many languages are supported without modifications, while others might tweak the text without explicit configuration: coffee-script elm fsharp haskell / lhaskell -- README matlab ocaml python / ipython -- README scala / ammonite -- README sml stata Advanced Configuration If plain vim-slime isn't doing exactly what you want, have a look at advanced configuration.
Read the full README on GitHub

What Hacker News says

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Not OP, but I like to avoid Jupyter where I can too. I like using a REPL though. For very interactive, experimental work I like having code in one pane and a REPL in another separate one - so that you can highlight and send snippets of a file to the REPL with a keystroke or two, and the code and results aren't mixed together. RStudio or Vim Slime[1] would be my favourite examples of this kind of approach. For more "static" literate programming, I prefer the way RMarkdown and Sweave work to Jupyter Notebooks (though I don't even use R anymore). Both have their strengths and weaknesses of course. [1] https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime
In Evcxr: A Rust REPL and Jupyter Kernel
For those of us that don't use Lisp (or Emacs+SLIME), and are stuck with Python/Julia/Lua/etc and Vim may I give a practical recommendation? The Vim-Slime plugin [1] is a half-decent way of making interactive development work. With a bit of tuning you can make it start a terminal emulator window inside Vim, and have it send the current paragraph of your source code into it with a press of a button. While not as great as working with a proper Repl-oriented language (as the article explains), this is still so much more pleasant than having to re-run the whole program every time you change a function. [1] https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime
In On Repl-Driven Programming

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