From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Platform Dependent Code Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:56:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20080620101747.BMG51159@expms4.cites.uiuc.edu> <8763s3elhj.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <485D5208.4030602@uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214078241 26017 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2008 19:57:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "J.J. Sestrich" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 21 21:58:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KA9Dn-0005sN-7S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:58:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KA9Cy-0002c0-7z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KA9Ct-0002ba-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KA9Cs-0002ZZ-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45750 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KA9Cr-0002ZU-Vz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:27294) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KA9Cr-0007qa-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:05 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvAEALD5XEjO+KWv/2dsb2JhbACBW6xU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,684,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="23057147" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca (HELO smtp.teksavvy.com) ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 21 Jun 2008 15:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.165.175]) by smtp.teksavvy.com (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id BZA78901; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 582767F05; Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:57:01 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <485D5208.4030602@uiuc.edu> (J. J. Sestrich's message of "Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:10:00 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:99628 Archived-At: > I was thinking about making a javascript implementation that could be used > in a browser. It would use some cgi scripts to do file I/O and window stuff > would probably be easy enough to do with html/javascript. At this point, I'm > just trying to gauge the level of work that would need to be done to make it > happen. I would imagine that in addition to the windowing and file I/O I'd > have to re-write the lisp interpreter, but this might be easier to do in > javascript than C. I don't really know enough about this to judge anything > though. Does anyone have any insight on these ideas: Size of code to be > re-written? Difficulty of code that has to be re-done? Sounds like a nice afternoon hack, Stefan