From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Stephens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: guile-emacs dead ? Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:13:25 +0000 Message-ID: <874qg3w66i.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> References: <877jllburh.fsf@williamxuuu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109178846 26816 80.91.229.2 (23 Feb 2005 17:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 23 18:14:05 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4058-00027i-86 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:13:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D40MW-0006Wm-7g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:31:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!proxad.net!194.117.148.138.MISMATCH!pe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk!blueyonder!peer-uk.news.demon.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cenderis.demon.co.uk Original-X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1109178805 7834 62.49.17.254 (23 Feb 2005 17:13:25 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 17:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xvTasAIjJnIVH8agGLZxILNeqFc= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128746 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24283 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24283 William Xuuu writes: > I found some discussions about guile-emacs by google, which seems > very exciting, 'cause i love scheme. While, there's really nothing > on its homepage. Is it dead ? Probably. My guess is that Scheme is too different to emacs-lisp to be particularly practical. I suspect you'd be better looking at smaller improvements like Miles' lexbind branch of emacs, which adds optional lexical binding. Getting that into the main branch of emacs would be very nice, I think. Changing to a Lisp-1 like scheme seems likely to involve lots of work for not much concrete gain, IMHO.