From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: guile-emacs dead ? Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 22:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <877jllburh.fsf@williamxuuu.org> <874qg3w66i.fsf@cenderis.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109428581 27932 80.91.229.2 (26 Feb 2005 14:36:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:36:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 26 15:36:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D533F-000890-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:36:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D53LD-0001Vq-K0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:54:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D53K6-0001EJ-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:53:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D53Jx-00019G-37 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D53Jv-00015Q-9B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:53:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D52sd-0001vu-Gw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 09:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D52oO-0006mp-Ls for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:20:52 +0100 Original-Received: from ip24-255-97-25.dc.dc.cox.net ([24.255.97.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:20:52 +0100 Original-Received: from smitty_one_each by ip24-255-97-25.dc.dc.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:20:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip24-255-97-25.dc.dc.cox.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8YzDTC1prJDM5AZx1uULPTMYDG8= 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:24374 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24374 >>>>> Bruce Stephens writes: > 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. What is the take on EdWin? http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EdWin R, C