From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: edu500ac@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:32:35 -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 1471901735 21124 195.159.176.226 (22 Aug 2016 21:35:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:35:35 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:32:36 +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 23:35:31 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 1bbwsV-0005Dx-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 23:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43334 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bbwsS-0004mF-Ep for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 17:35:28 -0400 X-Received: by 10.36.245.195 with SMTP id k186mr16166212ith.5.1471901556168; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:32:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.227.207 with SMTP id d198mr741586ith.4.1471901556136; Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f6no12135628ith.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni43676ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no12135618ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=200.131.199.26; posting-account=8YAtcAoAAAD4IX3bs0texOrJOshWJwro Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.131.199.26 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218749 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:111186 Archived-At: Hi Rusi. I don't want to improve on gnu-emacs. It is my favorite editor, and I think= that it has every feature that one may need in a text editor.=20 The main goal of the femtoemacs project is to provide a tiny emacs clone, f= or opening small text files with minimum start up. Well, there are small cl= ones that are used to fulfill this niche. To name a few: Zile, jmacs, micro= Emacs, etc. By the way, femtoemacs is based in one of these clones, to wit,= atto and Anthony's editor. What I miss in these clones is the possibility = of extending them in Lisp. This is my favorite feature in Emacs. Therefore,= femtolisp is a tiny Emacs that one can customize in Lisp. It is a replacem= ent for Zile, jmacs ou microEmacs, not for Emacs.=20 In many situations, I need a small editor for a mobile computer or for a cl= oud computer. It would be great if I had emacs in such a situations, but em= acs is large big and difficult to install for this kind of applications. I = could use jmacs or Zile in my cloud computer, but in doing so I would give = up Lisp customization. With femtoemacs, I will keep lisp scripting. To make= a long story short, if you feel the need of using jmacs or microEmacs, the= n femtoemacs may be a good replacement for these editors, since you can cus= tomize it in femtolisp or scheme. As for femtolisp, it was developed by Jeff Bezanson, the same person that c= reated the Julia language. It is one of the fastest interpreters around, an= d can be made fully compatible with Scheme.