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Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Jul 2002 16:00:13 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i386-debian-linux) |
Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 13:02:12 +0200, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I think having Emacs support Guile would be very visible to users, as
>> it likely would mean having threads which UI wise is probably the most
>> important new feature added to Emacs since it started supporting
>> windowing systems.
>
> OK, threads per se are good, but why should they be contingent on using
> Guile? They are now, because the plan is switching to Guile someday and
> it's absurd to duplicate efforts to discard them soon after. But perhaps
> adding thread support to Emacs/elisp is easier than doing the conversion
> from Emacs/elisp to Emacs/Guile. Who knows?
Yes, you are right, but there seem to be several advantages of using
guile (threads, i18n?, re-use between other applications, GTK
bindings, etc) and I strongly doubt that implementing all those things
in emacs is easier than switching to guile.
> From my (admittedly not very informed) perspective, the Emacs/Guile
> thing seems to be going nowhere (or, if it is going somewhere, it's
> doing it very quietly and off side).
I perceive the situation the same. What happened with the Guile Emacs
project? It seems to have died after the 0.5 release.
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, (continued)
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/07/08
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Miles Bader, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/16
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/17
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/17
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Stefan Monnier, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/19