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How can you use an interpreted language and not Emacs?
3 points by globalrev on Oct 24, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
This just puzzled me. I recently found out that you can't run a REPL in VIM.

OK, so how do you use interpreted languages if you use VIM?

C-c C-l, C-c C-e, etc is kind of the whole point no?

Don't you miss a lot of practicality there?

With Python the editor/interpreter that comes with Python is pretty good so I can see how.

Or do you use Eclipse or Netbeans? Do you think it is ok to run a repl in them?



Yes, this really helps me make the decision to use emacs.

There is a lot of useful information in this post for a non-emacs user.

I am not being sarcastic.


Look up Chimp, Soma, slime.vim, fvl, VIlisp, Limp, or Vim-R.

Hacking Vim to send text to a REPL isn't that hard, though it does require some setup.


OK so it is doable, good.


You fail it. ("it" is: providing a cohesive statement, not trying to a start yet another editor flame war, and not looking like a jackass who doesn't know how Google works.)




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