Vip is slightly different from vim for simplicity reasons, and imo its
closer to vi than vim but you'll do good knowing either :D

On Sat, Nov 29, 2025, 17:42 Duke Normandin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:46:22 +0100
> Alexander Burger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 10:13:10AM +0200, GB wrote:
> > > Using vip is a better experience thanks to being able to
> > > evaluate forms at point with Ctrl+E, so I'd personally
> > > recommend just doing that.
> >
> > PicoLisp mode for Emacs needs a bit more to be as powerful as
> > Vip, both for editing and for evaluation.
> >
> > It has to keep track of the namespace search order for each
> > buffer and all symbols. This comes for free in Vip, as Vip runs
> > *inside* PicoLisp, while PicoLisp must run as a separate process
> > in Emacs.
>
> Well it appears that I'll have to fire up `vim' and get
> re-acquainted with that editing paradigm. Thx ...
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> Duke
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