Re: Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support

[Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras <vonbecmann@gmail.com>]

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Do you plan to write everything on guile? is it possible?

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hello-
>
> In response to Ludo's request for a Guile-2.0 anniversary hack, I'll
> start by offering a release of a hack I made.  But this isn't my
> official hack: it is just a building block.
>
> Zile-on-Guile is a version of GNU Zile that uses GNU Guile as an
> extension language.  The original GNU Zile was a small editor in the
> style of GNU Emacs and it has its own tiny embedded Lisp interpreter.
> I've replaced that interpreter with Guile.
>
> You can find the download at
>
> https://github.com/downloads/spk121/zile/zile-on-guile-0.0.tar.gz
>
> This is a 0.0 release, so if it even builds on anyone else's machine,
> I'd be totally surprised.
>
> You can find the Git repository at
>
> https://github.com/spk121/zile
>
> The Guile extension can be accessed this way.
>
> -- Pressing Alt+C brings up a REPL.  You can do all your standard REPL
>    things.
>
> -- In the REPL, one can create and bind new commands.  Define a
>    procedure of zero arguments, export it, and then bind it to a key
>    using 'set-key'.
>
>    For example:
>
>      (define (blammo)
>        (insert "blammo"))
>      (export blammo)
>      (set-key "\\F9" 'blammo)
>
>    This creates a function that inserts the world "blammo" at the mark
>    whenever <F9> is pressed.
>
> -- And, if really you wanted to, you could edit your current buffer in
>    the REPL
>
>    For example:
>
>       (insert "here is some text")
>       (forward-char)
>
>    But that would just be silly.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Gran
>
>

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