I actually just rewrote my whole vimrc in fennel https://github.com/Grazfather/dotfiles/commit/c6a44d2a9c16724ef2d8b5447510b5a44609bca6

I coincidentally use #babashka to setup my dotfiles

it is getting tempting…

slowly moving things from my .vimrc to init.lua… but since it is still early part of me is thinking go full fennel… 😉

Skip lua!

I've also been tempted to start porting my vimrc to Fennel. I have a really big vimrc, though. Part of me thinks I could do it incrementally, but I don't know if I really want to live in a half-in, half-out world for the months/years it would take me before I could port the whole thing. 😑

I second skipping the lua step. Also, you don't need to port the whole thing over. Just start with new stuff in fennel

Using fennel you get autogenerated lua for free 😁

@grazfather your helper functions in macros.fnl are so good i might switch to nvim now

Thank you! I was inspired by this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/op39lf/showcase_of_idiomatic_configuration_using_fennel/ but i wrote my own because I wanted variadic macros so that I could more nicely group them

I'm on the fence about this lua stuff. Vim is horrible to parse but it's a custom dsl just for vim configs. That's quite handy!

I'm just lazy and don't want to do any string escaping in lua 😄

I had to do some but with my macros you don’t have to, at least for most bindings

since in lisp >.+* etc are legal in symbol names

so (set! <leader>ef ":something") instead of `

vim.crap.set("<leader>ef", ":something")

lua string escaping < vim array parsing

and writing functions in fennel >> writing functions in viml

I'm considering porting the VimL functions and other complex code to Fennel, but keep basic config (`*map`, set, let) in VimL

That’s a reasonable first step

I did it in one fell swoop and it took > 4 hours but that included the time it took me to write the macros