XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:41:49 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
      
   > On 21.01.2025 05:47, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:26:04 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Note that not all folks like functional programming in general or   
   >>> specifically programming in Lisp-like languages.   
   >>   
   >> ELisp is not a “functional programming” language. And like it or not,   
   >> Lisp has always been a cutting-edge language, with features not   
   >> commonly found in more conventional languages.   
   >   
   > Oh, I thought it would have something to do with Lisp ...   
      
   Of course it does.   
      
   > Concerning Vim you can read it supports: "scripting languages (both   
   > native and through alternative scripting interpreters such as Perl,   
   > Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.) including support for plugins". - Sounds   
   > extremely flexible and powerful to me.   
      
   Which of those languages can be used to write “plugins”? My feeling is,   
   none of them.   
      
   > [*] I recall someone in Usenet - it might even have been you? - showed   
   > some Lisp-like code (15-20 lines, or so) for Emacs to support some new   
   > function in Emacs. Vim supported that already natively.   
      
   Was it the function to do word counts in HTML files? Where does Vim   
   support that natively?   
      
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