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From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow user-defined meta-commands
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 04:55:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oca9aea4.fsf@newton.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877hgxx4ys.fsf@delenn.lan

On Mon, Nov 01 2010, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> Besides allowing user-defined meta-commands, this change also refactors
> the meta-command machinery to split reading a command's arguments from
> the procedure actually implementing it, and hence allows nesting
> meta-commands.  As an example of such a command, ",in" is added as a new
> meta-command.

As another example of where this patch is useful, i've got a branch of
geiser that uses new meta-commands to implement the interaction between
emacs and guile. Besides making the code cleaner and the interaction
much more robust, it has allowed us to support r6rs libraries. So here's
hope that this patch will be accepted :)

jao




      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-01  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-01  0:28 [PATCH] Allow user-defined meta-commands Andreas Rottmann
2010-11-01  3:55 ` Jose A. Ortega Ruiz [this message]

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