YOyori·Dec 17, 2019Submission
Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim (“Slime for Vim”)
2 points · Open discussionkovisoft
slimv
Common Lisp2013–2022
kovisoft / slimv
slimv
Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org
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15Mentions
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479GitHub stars
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Official mirror of Slimv versions released on vim.org
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- vlime/vlime · linked in 2 of the same discussions
Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesI'm using Vim with the SLIMV plugin (derived from SLIME for Emacs) and a bit of script glue to open a new Terminal tab for running SBCL with SWANK in. Like an IDE, and connected with a live Lisp.
https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv
In ABCL – Common Lisp on the JVMSuperior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim (“Slime for Vim”)
1 points · Open discussionTLDR; Slimv and Vlime support SLIME like development environment for Lisp in Vim. They have similar features but their implementation details and key-bindings are different. The OP prefers Slimv more than Vlime.
But I think the OP needs to add a disclosure that they are also contributor to Slimv - https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv/commits?author=susam.
Open source contributions are good. This is a good thing. But this needs disclosure because they could be biased towards this plugin consciously or subconsciously.
In Lisp Programming in Vim with Slimv or VlimeSlimv – Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Vim
7 points · Open discussionFrom the OP:
git clone https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv.git ~/.vim/bundle/slimv
echo 'set runtimepath^=~/.vim/bundle/slimv' >> ~/.vimrc
vim +'helptags ~/.vim/bundle/slimv/doc' +q
Is this a common way of installing Vim plugins?
In Lisp in Vim with Slimv or Vlime> Lisp had this kind of interactive programming support for a long time using SLIME and Emacs.
For those like me who have Vim burnt into their fingers and brain, there is Slimv[1] for Vim. Another alternative is Vlime[2] for Vim. Both these plugins are based on the same client-server architecture that SLIME is based on. In fact, these plugins rely on Swank TCP server (the same thing that SLIME also relies on). Swank receives SLIME commands from Slimv or Vlime and executes them. Of these two Vim plugins, I prefer Slimv personally because apart from supporting Common Lisp, it supports MIT Scheme and Clojure too. Vlime supports Common Lisp only at this time.
[1]: https://github.com/kovisoft/slimv
[2]: https://github.com/l04m33/vlime
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