From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:43:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1363920239.82065.YahooMailNeo@web120405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <4CB5C160-9728-4784-ABA1-E8BDFC825990@vaughan.pe> Reply-To: Mike Gran NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363920260 22544 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2013 02:44:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 02:44:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile User , Zile bugs , Reuben Thomas To: "Gary V. 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Vaughan =0A=0A>I wo= nder whether you're aware of the recent change of tack in the Zile=0A>proje= ct?=C2=A0 For the moment all the exciting work is happening on the lua=0A>b= ranch:=0A=0A=0AI've been following it from afar. Good stuff, but I haven't = done much=0Aother than run it once or twice.=0A=0A>This is where I think it= gets interesting for you, in that zlc, being=0A=0A>implemented in Lua too,= is also eminently hackable, to the point where I=0A>don't think it would b= e very much work at all to tweak a version that compiles=0A>a Guile inspire= d scheme to Lua bytecodes (as opposed to Elisp -> Lua).=0A>=0A>Another goal= of the reshuffle with Zile (the editor building toolkit) is to=0A>make it = easy to build experimental editors.=C2=A0 Reuben has a very cut down fork= =0A>of Lua Zile that we plan to re-adopt back into the Zile distribution, a= nd I=0A>have a TextMate inspired syntax highlighting subproject, both of wh= ich will=0A>shortly live alongside Zmacs with equal billing as examples of = the kinds of=0A>things Zile can help with.=C2=A0 I wonder whether you'd be = interested in contributing=0A>to a Guile Emacs inspired Zuile=E2=84=A2 flav= our?=0A=0A=0AI could see how that could be fun, mapping Guile VM bytecodes = to the Lua=0Abytecodes.=C2=A0 I wonder how compatible they might be?=0A=0A= =0AWhile I agree that might be a great job for somebody, I won't be able he= lp=0Aout.=C2=A0 I just can't condone the creation of yet another Scheme, ev= en though=0Ayour reasons for creating one are exciting.=0AI guess, because = Lua is such a great extension language, I don't see the=0Avalue added in wr= iting Zile extensions in anything other than Lua.=0A=0AGood Luck,=0A=0AMike= Gran=0A