created by

Meikel Brandmeyer

script type

utility

description

Chimp uses screen to talk to external interpreters. The basic screen driver is language agnostic and is intended to be used as backend for filetype plugins, which comprise the intelligence of the system. An example filetype plugin for Clojure is included. There are several ways to extract code and send it to a running Clojure in a screen. The coupling is very loose on purpose! Eg. one can send from several Vims to the same screen. However this leads to a certain fragileness. The Clojure plugin takes care of automatically switching namespaces for the different files being edited. However, nothing prevents the user from interacting with the REPL directly messing up the namespace sync between Chimp in Vim and Clojure. Chimp should also work on Windows with Cygwin. You will also need the VimClojure filetype plugin for the Clojure frontend. http://kotka.de/projects/clojure/vimclojure.html Similar scripts: - VILisp (vimscript #221) - Limp (vimscript #2219) - http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-vim/

install details

For installation put the extracted subdirectory in your .vim directory. Start your interpreter with the chimp.sh wrapper from the bin/ subdir. It tells you a "Chimp Id" in the bottom line of the screen. Supply this to the glue functions. The Clojure plugin will ask you the first time you send data and will further cache the Id.

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package	script version	date	Vim version	user	release notes
chimp-1.2.0.tar.gz	1.2.0	2008-10-18	7.0	Meikel Brandmeyer	Added more functions for the Clojure frontend: - dw to look up documentation for word under the cursor - ld to look up arbitrary documentation - fd to find documentation via find-doc Fixed a bug with an obsolete argument to EvalFile
chimp-1.1.0.tar.gz	1.1.0	2008-09-02	7.0	Meikel Brandmeyer	- Mostly clean-up release. - Now recognises new clojure/ns function. - Requires VimClojure >= 1.2.1 for the Clojure frontend.
chimp-1.0.0.tar.gz	1.0.0	2008-08-18	7.0	Meikel Brandmeyer	Initial upload

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