vim-pastie

> Also looking at the code for pastie.org support in Vim and Emacs -- I would definitively prefer extending Emacs To each its own, but tpope's pastie is doing a lot more than the emacs pastie. Compare the usage https://github.com/tpope/vim-pastie/blob/master/doc/pastie.t... to emacs http://emacswiki.org/emacs/pastie.el tpope's pastie supports registers, regions, windows, buffers, files and snoops the login cookies from firefox. If it were to be reduced to pasting whole buffer, region and reading a paste, it will be incredibly simple.

> Apart from async(which Vim can't do), Vim is as extensible as Emacs in letter and spirit. Considering that you are vowing vim allegiance, I think tpope's plugins would have made it pretty obvious how extensible vim is. Well, pastie[1] might be one of the few "advanced" plugins I've considered using (the only one I've actually used is limp[2]). I've not come across anyone advocating something along the lines of mush or gnus for vim(x) though. That is more what I meant -- I use Vim as "just" an editor. Also looking at the code for pastie.org support in Vim and Emacs -- I would definitively prefer extending Emacs -- and I don't even like Lisp much. I suppose one could use another scripting language to extend Vim, such as Python -- but my impression is that the focus is a little (note not a lot) different between Emacs and Vim wrt. these t