From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:48:48 +0300 Message-ID: <83fv194f0v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <561A19AB.5060001@cumego.com> <87io6dl0h0.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87lhb82qxc.fsf@gmail.com> <87oag4jk74.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87k2qrki45.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737xf9je9.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87pp0fm0j3.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3kusx8z.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83lhb26eb9.fsf@gnu.org> <876126key3.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv1a6bfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1weo7u9.fsf@gnu.org> <83zizi3qr0.fsf@gnu.org> <87lhb1n81y.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8rhqzdd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tctxy1a.fsf@T420.taylan> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445100550 25391 80.91.229.3 (17 Oct 2015 16:49:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 16:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ludo@gnu.org, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich =?utf-8?Q?Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1=2FK?= =?utf-8?Q?ammer?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 17 18:49:00 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 1ZnUfC-0006A3-KC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:48:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59084 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUfB-0002Pa-Iv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:48:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUf7-0002PK-TP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUf6-0003Wl-Ry for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:48:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:55360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZnUf0-0003WF-3T; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:48:46 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWD00J00IOLOQ00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:48:44 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWD00J61IP7O710@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:48:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <871tctxy1a.fsf@T420.taylan> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:191853 Archived-At: > From: taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kamm= er) > Cc: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s), Eli Zaretskii > , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:25:21 +0200 >=20 > I guess the discussion was about rewriting bigger parts of Emacs in > Guile-Scheme Yes, this is the issue; see the Subject. > Most of the benefits in e.g. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GuileEm= acs > apply without having to solve the string problem. But this discussion is about replacing most or all of the Emacs C cor= e with Guile. If we want to avoid rewriting, say, coding.c completely =66rom scratch, we need Guile to support the same operations as the o= nes exposed by coding.c to Lisp applications. Currently, Guile doesn't.