On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 21.01.2009 um 21:44 schrieb Mark Volkmann:
>
>> What is the difference between vimclojure and Gorilla?
>
> VimClojure provides static things like syntax highlighting,
> indenting and static code completion as supported by
> Vim (<C-N>). It's purely Vim and needs nothing else.
>
> Gorilla supplements VimClojure with dynamic features,
> similar to SLIME for emacs:
> - send expressions to a Clojure server
> - lookup docstrings, javadoc, Chouser's show...
> - expand macros
> - complete static members of Classes (<- unique feature AFAIK :))
> - provide a Repl inside a Vim buffer
>
> It currently needs Ruby and isn't very stable. I'm working
> on removing the Ruby dependency though. VimClojure
> is a prerequisite for Gorilla, since the latter depends on the
> syntax highlighting of the former.

Thanks for explaining that! I'm currently using VimClojure and like it
a lot! I guess I'll wait until you finish removing the Ruby dependency
to upgrade to Gorilla. I have nothing against Ruby. In fact I'm coding
in it right now. Unfortunately I found it difficult to add Ruby
support to Vim.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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