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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Recent history of vi (was: Re: Python/C/Pascal ... How To Choose?)
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:14:09 -0000 (UTC)
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence DOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:07:46 -0000 (UTC), Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> I also don't think it supports "arbitrary ex mode command in
>> third column of a tags file" ...
> Isn't there a vi derivative that supports Lua as an alternative extension 
> language to those antiquated ex commands?

I wouldn't know and I don't care to look. I don't find scripting
language integration with the editor to my tastes. I did just see
someone in comp.editors complaining about something Lua related in vim,
and I could believe vim offers it as a compile option. I have not
compile vim myself in a while.

(There was a 8.1.x vim that had a bug with <ctrl-v><ctrl-m> on the : line,
and that was painful enough for me to recompile instead of using the
package, but since then package version is fine.)

Elijah
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whose notes say that compile was early 2020