Re: current directory

[vb <help-gnu-emacs@vsbe.com>]

Kevin,

thank you for the hint on Crisp emulation - I tried it before, and it did not 
work quite as expected - I just tried it again, and it still doesn't - say 
the numeric keypad asterisk which is an 'undo' key in Crisp doesn't work this 
way. Window navigation (Shift->arrow key) doesn't work either, but I am sure 
it all is fixable. A bigger issue is that a big macro library can not be 
reused between Crisp and Emacs (not that I think this is even feasible to 
expect between any two editors).

On Monday 23 October 2006 13:32, Kevin Rodgers wrote:

>
>  > You
>  > can write macros in object oriented c-like language, not in this
>
> weird lisp
>
>  > which is a remnant of computing stone age (I know, I know that it is
>
> still
>
>  > used to teach students).
>
> Good grief.

Yeah, well, I was half kidding. My daughter graduated from UCB CS program 
recently - I watched her learn and use schema - she sure would be quite 
comfortable with Emacs macro extensions.

But believe me, not all (and I would bet not even a majority) of Emacs users 
came through a CS program teaching schema - for all of us it is so weird to 
adjust to Lisp after some most popular in the industry programming languages  
(be it C/C++ or Java or Perl/PHP - whatever people use to earn living these 
days) so many don't even try.

I understand it's too late to expect Emacs to switch to another scripting 
language, but I sure think the need to use lisp  is a deficiency.

cheers,
/vb