Re: Editing Scheme in the installation image

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> skribis:

>>On Sunday, January 8, 2017 2:48 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

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>>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.
>
> I looked at the current beta of paredit, and I quickly scanned
> the code to look for *emacs* primitives.  Below please find a list
> of the primitives that Zile is missing.  Note that this isn't the
> missing *elisp* procedures.
> Adding the majority of these is quite straightforward, but,
> some have heretofore been out of scope for Zile. The missing
> categories of concepts are
> - lisp and scheme filling and indentation
> - blinking the cursor or a matching parenthesis
> - handling comments
> - handling what emacs calls "lists" which is moving up and down
>   balanced parentheses
> Here's the list. I probably missed a few.

Woow, thanks for investigating!

Looks non-trivial.  I wonder how much of it could be trimmed by focusing
just on the subset of Paredit relating to matching parens.

Ludo’.