Harald Hanche-Olsen  <hanche@math.ntnu.no> wrote:
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| It is rumoured that vim has a reasonable lisp mode.
| But of course, the crowd that likes vim is probably quite a bit
| thinner than the one that prefers emacs.
| (I use both, but emacs most - and I never tried to use vim for lisp.)
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I have made several serious tries over the years to get on-board
with Emacs, all unsucessful.[1]  And while it is true that "vim
has a reasonable lisp mode", I've actually been quite happy with
plain ol' Vi (well, nvi-1.79, the last Bostic release). It has
paren-matched[2] flashing/motion/yanking/deleting/shifting[3],
which is all I need for editing Lisp. But YMMV...


-Rob

[1] Something about too many years using editors (TECO, Bravo, "ed",
    Vi, etc.) with separate "input mode" & "command mode", so most
    editing commands are single-letter keypresses, and also having
    hands that don't "chord" well [on a keyboard -- pianos are fine!].

[2] It also matches {}, [], & <>. For some reason, "vim" doesn't
    want to match <>. Go figure.

[3] I find it useful to ":set shiftwidth=1", whereupon placing the
    cursor on a paren and typing "<%" shifts the entire S-expr left
    one space, while ">%..." shifts the S-expr right 4 spaces, etc.

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