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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language |
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Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:03:39 +0200 |
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David Kastrup <address@hidden> skribis:
> Shrug. There is the GUILE branch. In my opinion its largest obstacle
> towards acceptance is the failure of GUILE strings to offer a comparable
> feature set to Emacs multibyte strings: nothing outside of the Unicode
> range, no byte transparent reproduction.
OTOH, I imagine Emacs could build its own abstraction, if needed, on top
of Guile bytevectors.
> This needs an overhaul of GUILE's string handling (which delegates parts
> of it to helper libraries, some of those being under control of GNU,
> some not).
String handling is partly delegated to GNU libunistring. There’s no
other library involved.
> GUILE's byte compiler is supposed to do a better job than Elisp. It's
> still not native, but the layering of GUILE's compiler might make native
> code generation more realistic than with Elisp.
Agreed.
Ludo’.
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, (continued)
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Óscar Fuentes, 2015/10/12
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/15
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/13
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Chris Patti, 2015/10/14
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Jay Belanger, 2015/10/14
- Guile-Emacs, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Wolfgang Jenkner, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, David Kastrup, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/10/16
- Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language, Ludovic Courtès, 2015/10/16