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 ... > -- > Duke > > -- > Fridays for Functions: 9:00-17:00 UTC > on Jitsi https://meeting.itship.ch/picolisp > > UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subjectUnsubscribe >
