Garriss, Michael wrote:
>
> I'm just starting to learn about vim plug-ins.  After studying
> some of these
> vim scripts I ran across in-line perl, python and this strange language
> Ruby.  I asked on the vim / vim.org list which of those languages I should
> learn (I only have so many neurons) and almost %100 of the
> responses were in
> glowing favor of Ruby.  So now I'm learning Ruby and I have
> already made it
> my mistress (I'm still married to C++, the old ball and chain).
>
> I know there is much work being done in the Vim community to make Vim more
> IDE like.  To answer your question properly I would need to do
> some research
> but work keeps we much too busy for that.  I can however give you some
> leads:
>
> http://www.vim.org/scripts.php               <--- repository of
> vim scripts
> http://www.vim.org/script.php?script_id=501  <--- ex. beta of
> some ruby code
> that does auto method/member completion
> :help ruby                                   <--- vim command to give
> instructions on how vim interfaces with ruby
>
> Hope that helps,
> 	-Mike Garrriss

Its gratifying to hear that the responses you got were nearly unanimously in
favor of Ruby!

Thanks for the leads, I will check it out as soon as I find a few spare
neurons... :-)

Curt


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Hibbs [mailto:curt / hibbs.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 8:57 AM
> > To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> > Subject: Re: The coolest thing since sliced bread
> >
> >
> > Garriss, Michael wrote:
> > >
> > > I would be nice to be able to "plug-in" the existing vim
> > into FreeRIDE.
> > > Many of the features you mentioned have already been
> > implemented as vim
> > > plug-ins (some written in RUBY!) and are not the execlusive
> > advatanages of
> > > IDE's over "editors".  I've handled CVS from vim for a long time.
> >
> > If its not too much to ask, can you tell me what features have been
> > implemented in Ruby for Vim? If its something we want for FreeRIDE and
> > source code is available in Ruby, I'm all for "borrowing" instead of
> > "building".
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Curt
> >
> >
>
>