Re: [Bug-zile] New branch `zi': Lua Zile without the Lisp Interpreter

[Reuben Thomas]

On 10 August 2011 13:11, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Ultimately, I think JED does the right thing here by shipping various
> sets of keymappings whether your muscle memory likes wordstar, notepad
> or emacs (not sure about vi though, that would be a lot more work).

Sure, having something flexible enough to do that makes sense, though
I've never been satisfied by any emulation (beyond very low-level
standards like CUA), hence my work on Zile to make it an exact Emacs
subset (so it does satisfy!). Without behavioural as well as key
emulation, one may as well just follow the "platform" standard and not
try to mimic other proprietary binding sets such as Emacs or Wordstar
which in any case rely on idiosyncratic behavior of the editor itself.

> I too prefer chained keymaps as a better long term solution, but I'm
> trying hard not to bite off more than I can chew :)

This should not be too hard: the binding module already supports
multiple bindings sets; it just doesn't use them. The extra coding
that would be needed is just to support the selection of different
keymaps in the key processing code.

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