[fixnum42]

Recently I was studying Programming Languages Theory with Racket (using this book - http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/) and I didn't like DrRacket. So I decided to use Racket with Vim, but the only way could do it was through GNU Screen and Slime plugin for Vim. It works, but it takes several seconds for expressions to travel from Vim to GNU Screen and it is quite inconvenient. Furthermore, I don't have invocation history in the REPL, so if I mistype function name, I'd have to type it all over again. Does anyone know of a better option for Racket with Vim? How do you use interpreted languages with Vim?

[rca]

I tried using slimv as well some time ago but I never managed to get it working properly. I don't remember exactly what happened but I believe there were some bugs (like the lag you mention) and I couldn't figure out how to properly transfer just the piece of code I wanted to the repl. Plus I didn't want most of the plugins that slimv added (paredit for instance).

I ended up using this method http://technotales.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/like-slime-for-v... instead. I put just the basic functions into a plugin and that has been enough for me ever since. I use it for lisps though, not haskell.

[takikawa]

I use emacs with evil-mode (very good vim emulation) to program in Racket. The advantage of emacs is that it has paredit, geiser, and other useful plugins.