pdrummond

I'm in the North East, near Durham

clojure.

I think Nokia might surprise everyone - Qt 4.7 with its new Qt Quick technology allows for some extremely slick user interfaces so while Nokia have certainly disappointed in the past and are way behind Android and iphone I wouldn't rule them out just yet!

I know of various attempts to get this sort of functionality in Vim but I've never been able to get it to work very well. The bottom line IMO is that Vim is not designed for this sort of thing while Emacs is.

I am a die hard vim user who has been learning Clojure recently and I have learned a little Emacs along the way because everyone in the Lisp community bangs on about it.

The funny thing is, every time I go to write some Clojure code - I want to open a Vim session, but I am always strangely drawn to Emacs for some reason.

Recently, I decided to figure out what it was about Emacs that made me want to use it so much over Vim. I soon realised it was all about being able to load a REPL process in a window and interact with it on the fly.

I can run Emacs, open a Clojure source file, write a function then hit C-M-x to send the function to the REPL to be evaluated. Also relevant is that Clojure support in Emacs was available shortly after Clojure's release to the public late in 200.

This is a very specific case (lisp-style interactive development) but it's why I personally think Emacs is great and for me it has nothing to do with Emacs text editing features! I will always prefer Vim for pure text editing power.

Ok, I've added a "What is textbin?" bin which briefly explains the idea. It needs work but it's a start!

This is a really simple idea and it's not really ready for release yet (which is why there is currently little explanation about what it is!).

I guess I am hoping the comments here will help me to decide whether this is a waste of time or not! I keep changing my mind myself so I thought I'd get some constructive criticism and see what happens!

Yeah, sorry - I was planning to add a "What is textbin" link and provide various help pages.... doing that now...

But at the login page there is a link to register - isn't that enough?

This seems like a great idea - I am going to see Kylie at the Newcastle Arena (UK) tomorrow night and the site showed Kylie as the first result! Cool!

One problem - the map is showing Newcastle somewhere in America! Oops! If I type in "Newcastle, Uk", the map jumps to the right place but the music results change and Kylie is no longer there...