From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <314ef82d-c3d4-49fb-a81d-0b58984c8c37@default> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83mvvnooo4.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhb7oo4e.fsf@gnu.org> <83k2qqzuir.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444756098 6389 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2015 17:08:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 17:08:18 +0000 (UTC) To: John Wiegley , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 13 19:08:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm33P-0001WK-2v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 19:07:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37991 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2eK-0000lw-Lg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45305) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2cj-0008A8-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:40:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2cf-0006kW-C1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:40:25 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:23237) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zm2cf-0006k4-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t9DGeHAc031335 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:40:17 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t9DGeGuf024416 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:40:17 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0004.oracle.com (abhmp0004.oracle.com [141.146.116.10]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t9DGeGfi026864; Tue, 13 Oct 2015 16:40:16 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191500 Archived-At: > The C we have works for us, so this idea is pretty low priority. As you > wrote in another thread, there are several, higher priority items that > would win us more contributors faster (documentation, etc). Even changing > from C to a Lisp would not be a silver bullet: the display code would > still be a hard problem to solve. And yet the thread goes on. Lower priority, little light.