Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hello,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:

> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> skribis:
>>
>>> The functions expressed in Scheme in Zile-on-Guile are the same
>>> as upstream Zile had.  It is a fairly limited set.
>>> Zile-on-Guile is a Scheme, not an elisp, even though the functions
>>> it expresses have elisp-like names. So there is little portability
>>> between Emacs and this Zile.
>>
>> Yes.  Any idea how hard it would be to port the real Paredit to
>> Zile-on-Guile?
>
> Isn't there native support for elisp in Guile? Would this allow running
> directly Paredit (elisp), provided that Zile-on-Guile implements
> everything that Paredit needs from the Emacs API?
>
> This is probably more work in the short term than rewriting Paredit in
> Scheme, but it would enable Zile-on-Guile to potentially run (m)any Emacs
> packages.

I think it would take more than elisp compilation support to port Emacs
packages to Zile-on-Guile.  Essentially we’d need many APIs that Emacs
provides.

Ludo’.