Re: [dev] [vis] vis editor status update

From: Silvan Jegen <s.jegen_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 10:35:54 +0100

Heyho

Shame you couldn't make it to the suckless conference. I would have
been interested in your talk about vis.

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Marc André Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:48:56PM +0200, Marc André Tanner wrote:
>> Recent changes in no particular order include:
>
> [...]
>
> - new input handling based on libtermkey supporting key aliases
> - Lua LPeg based syntax highlighting using definitions from scintillua
>
> The last two items introduce dependencies on libtermkey (for input
> handling) and Lua (>= 5.1) + LPeg for Parsing Expression Grammar
> based syntax highlighting. Some of you might not like them, but in
> my opinion they are the least sucking solutions I could come up with

As far as embedable scripting languages go Lua seems like the most
suckless solution. For me the much lauded simple "stack-like" Lua-C
interface is not *that* easy to understand though.

The advantages of the libtermkey input handling were not immediately
evident to me when briefly looking at the code. What was the
motivation for using the library?


Cheers,

Silvan
Received on Wed Dec 02 2015 - 10:35:54 CET