Vim Slime: A vim plugin to give you some slime. (Emacs)

The name is confusing. Vim-slime does <i>not</i> speak the swank protocol. But another plugin for vim, called slimv, does.<p>You could also use slime in vim with a rube-goldberg-esque combination of eclim (<a href="http://http://eclim.org/" rel="nofollow">http://http://eclim.org/</a>) and CUSP (<a href="http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.bitfauna.com/projects/cusp/cusp.htm</a>).

That's not really SLIME. It's more like Emacs' comint-mode which powers all the functionality for sending code around in Emacs.<p><a href="http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode" rel="nofollow">http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ComintMode</a><p>SLIME is much more than just sending code. It's a full-fledged development environment with commands for inspecting variables, viewing threads, stepping, viewing backtraces, etc.

Neat, but not quite the same thing as Slime. Slime also, provides hinting and autocompletion based on the running Lisp image, debugging restarts, namespace resolution and other features.<p>This seems more general though, and clearly has the biggest feature nailed.

There's also slimv, another swank client in VIM. Here's a video using it with Clojure<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/38372260" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/38372260</a>

I use vim-slime every day and am mainly happy with it. It is a little annoying to have to set up screen for it, I wish I knew how to script screen better but the docs are pretty opaque.