From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: arunmib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: is Emacs completely written in lisp Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:00:01 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0b863c61-a1fd-43fe-b160-f257f660d416@c29g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <5qg0qsFvs4boU1@mid.individual.net> <87wsscbvye.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195620034 15953 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 04:40:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:40:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 05:40:40 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuhOB-0002VO-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:40:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuhNy-0002d2-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b32g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.99.197.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195617601 25129 127.0.0.1 (21 Nov 2007 04:00:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:00:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b32g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=203.99.197.2; posting-account=_NDkFwoAAADkctvx_AumdL2te5V_IpH2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 CTSINTDLSISB X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153953 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49385 Archived-At: On Nov 20, 11:42 pm, jadam...@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) wrote: > arunmib writes: > > On Nov 20, 5:04 pm, Marc Tfardy wrote: > >> arunmib schrieb: > > >> > Hi all, > >> > Is Emacs completely written in Lisp or is written in combination > >> > with some other language. What I am trying to ask is the UI and other > >> > OS dependent stuff (if any, I don't know this thing) is also written > >> > in Lisp or some other language, like C is also used.... > > >> C + ELisp > > >> Marc > > > Out of curiosity, can you tell me how? just a general overview or some > > place where I can read, how this is done? > > Stallman's article is a good place to hear about the why and how:http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html. My understanding is that the > functions that really need to work fast and often, as well as > the Emacs Lisp interpreter are in C. Basically the backbone is C and > the Lisp interpreter (a full-on REPL) takes care of the rest. If you > `M-x apropos' and look up a function name, it will tell you if it's in C > or Lisp, along with a link to the file where you can find the function. > > - Show quoted text - Thanks a lot for the useful disucssion ppl. I will go through the links. But before that by reading these posts as a crude form of understanding, can I say that what ever I type in as command is parsed through the Lisp interpreter and the appropriate C or Lisp function is called. Is my understanding correct or ?