From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:17:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <6ea295ed-010d-476d-b832-9e850a98a609@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1471839634 676 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2016 04:20:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 04:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 04:17:03 +0000 User-Agent: G2/1.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 22 06:20:30 2016 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 1bbgis-0008KV-1G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 06:20:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39406 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbgis-0000Us-0S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:20:30 -0400 X-Received: by 10.31.154.212 with SMTP id c203mr14889922vke.10.1471839423503; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:17:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.189.1 with SMTP id x1mr183751ite.4.1471839423446; Sun, 21 Aug 2016 21:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!j37no9883172qta.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni42921ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no11897131ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <6ea295ed-010d-476d-b832-9e850a98a609@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.255.103.23; posting-account=xePGxQoAAAAgJalA5zaHmrGIX9Wk_gLW Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.255.103.23 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218747 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:111184 Archived-At: On Sunday, August 21, 2016 at 4:15:05 PM UTC-4, edu5...@gmail.com wrote: > Dear Members of Gnu.Emacs.help, >=20 > A team of engineers, of which I am part, has decided to write a tiny vers= ion of > Emacs. Well, there are many tiny versions of Emacs around: Microemacs, Z= ile, jmacs to name a few. However, the idea is to be in keeping with the Em= acs Philosophy, and not only providing key-binding for Emacs compatibility.= By Emacs philosophy, I mean that the new editor must be customizable throu= gh a Lisp dialect.=20 To wit, Scheme is a lisp dialect and it's both BEEN used as the scripting l= anguage of EDWIN as distributed with MIT Scheme, AND the lisp engine of ema= cs is mutating towards Scheme. Given how small/tiny a Scheme interpreter CAN be -- check out the dialect u= sed in GIMP -- I can't imagine a picolisp interpreter smaller; and Lua seem= s both tiny and increasingly popular as a language embedded in apps, games,= and even TI calculators. If one wants the syntactic sugar of Picolisp at the cost of being less tiny= then by all means HAVE AT IT. Personally I see EDWIN, GNU Emacs, and GUILE becoming more interoperable as= the future unfolds. Cheers! Gene