Re: [RFC] vim plugin rewrite II

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Anton Khirnov <anton@khirnov.net> wrote:

> sorry for the late reply, I see you already reached the same point as
> me, except with ruby ;) Yay for competition.

I think my plugin is a bit further. And yeah, competition is good, but
also collaboration; hopefully the 3 plugins can share as much as
possible.

>> I was seriously considering to concentrate on this plugin instead of
>> the current one, but I'm afraid every little error causes a crash,
>> even when a subprocess fails (e.g. msmtp), so it's not really usable
>> for me. Not to mention that it's really hard to debug, because every
>> bug causes a crash, and sometimes I get random crashes with no
>> information about what caused it at all.
>>
>> I am starting to work on a version that uses ruby, and it doesn't seem
>> to have these issues, but lets see. I'm still not sure if we should
>> depend on ruby/python bindings, maybe there's a way to make them
>> optional.
>>
>> Anyway, if you find a way to improve the crash issues, let me know, so
>> far it's the only real issue I see with this plug-in.
>
> That is weird, I'm not getting any crashes here. On any exception in the
> python code it prints the backtrace and continues normally. I don't
> think I've ever seen it actually crash (not counting my ultimately
> unsuccessfull attempts at threading). I wonder what could cause this.

Interesting. I would need to check that, but I don't have time right now =/

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras