From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Barry Fishman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs documentation is bad Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:10:59 -0400 Organization: Easynews - www.easynews.com Message-ID: <7na7oqfhjg.fsf@ecube.ecubist.org> References: <20180909133428.GC6746@tuxteam.de> <7nlg8afj9a.fsf@ecube.ecubist.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536531204 29184 195.159.176.226 (9 Sep 2018 22:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 22:13:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 10 00:13:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fz7xI-0007Vq-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:13:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fz7zO-0005iY-EN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2018 18:15:30 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!bolzen.all.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer02.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx39.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Cancel-Lock: sha1:nXawDeYdmGUwnjjAaKxFJ/jHng4= Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. X-Received-Bytes: 1966 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3412262279 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223728 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117853 Archived-At: On 2018-09-09 17:39:54 -04, Noam Postavsky wrote: > On 9 September 2018 at 17:33, Barry Fishman wrote: > >> If Scheme semantics are that important to you, you could move your project to >> a Scheme environment, maybe MIT Scheme and Erwin, if you want a Scheme >> based Emacs. Or help with the project implementing Guile Emacs. > > AFAIK, Guile Emacs doesn't change the semantics of Emacs Lisp, it just > reimplements the same semantics using the Guile VM bytecode > interpreter. My understanding that a Guile implementation of Emacs is not just to use E-Lisp, but to allow writing Emacs extensions in any language Guile supports, in particular Scheme. This is discussed in the Emacs Wiki page: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEmacs -- Barry Fishman