Re: emacs with guile instead of elisp

Mikael Djurfeldt (mdj@nada.kth.se)
03 Jul 1998 09:57:15 +0200

Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:

> What are the major obstacles/objections to writing an editor that looks almost
> like GNU emacs, but uses guile instead of elisp as extension language?

Obstacle: Emacs is a large program.

Solution: Rewrite part of the C code to use Guile, but keep the ELisp
code untouched.

Requirement: Guile must know how to read ELisp.

Status: There exists an experimental Guile which can do this.
However, further improvement is necessary to get a robust
behaviour.

/mdj