Open jvican opened 8 years ago
I don't know how I could interface with vim
from Haskell. One of nvim
's innovative features is the msgpack-rpc API which vim
lacks.
It's certainly possible, but requires a lot of work. You (i.e. not me :P) could recreate the msgpack-rpc functionality in pure vimL
and synchronize the exported functions with nvim
, for example. But this approach will likely result in an API-compatibility hell.
If you need portable plugins, use vimL. In the future haskell-ide-engine
, combined with some frontend-specific glue code, might be an alternative.
Good to know haha! Thanks for the info, I will look into this and see if it's convenient... I was looking forward to use Haskell
instead of the annoying vimL
:+1:
BTW, great job with this!
I think with vim 8 a lot of this code base can be reused. For that I would probably mimick the messagepack-rpc protol with json instead of messagepack. This way only the transport layout would have to be exchangeable. Function/Command/Autocommand registration is then the major thing to think about.
I'm happy to help designing or discussing this if someone wants to dedicate some time on this.
Hey!
Congrats, this is awesome!
I am just wondering if there is a way to develop not only for
nvim
but forvim
. I need backwards compatibility with older versions of vim. Perhaps something can be done to make it work?