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Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support
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Mike Gran |
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Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support |
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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:43:59 -0700 (PDT) |
Hi Gary (and Reuben)
> From: Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>
>I wonder whether you're aware of the recent change of tack in the Zile
>project? For the moment all the exciting work is happening on the lua
>branch:
I've been following it from afar. Good stuff, but I haven't done much
other than run it once or twice.
>This is where I think it gets interesting for you, in that zlc, being
>implemented in Lua too, is also eminently hackable, to the point where I
>don't think it would be very much work at all to tweak a version that compiles
>a Guile inspired scheme to Lua bytecodes (as opposed to Elisp -> Lua).
>
>Another goal of the reshuffle with Zile (the editor building toolkit) is to
>make it easy to build experimental editors. Reuben has a very cut down fork
>of Lua Zile that we plan to re-adopt back into the Zile distribution, and I
>have a TextMate inspired syntax highlighting subproject, both of which will
>shortly live alongside Zmacs with equal billing as examples of the kinds of
>things Zile can help with. I wonder whether you'd be interested in
>contributing
>to a Guile Emacs inspired Zuile™ flavour?
I could see how that could be fun, mapping Guile VM bytecodes to the Lua
bytecodes. I wonder how compatible they might be?
While I agree that might be a great job for somebody, I won't be able help
out. I just can't condone the creation of yet another Scheme, even though
your reasons for creating one are exciting.
I guess, because Lua is such a great extension language, I don't see the
value added in writing Zile extensions in anything other than Lua.
Good Luck,
Mike Gran
- [Bug-zile] Zile-on-Guile, Reuben Thomas, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Bug-zile] Zile-on-Guile, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Bug-zile] Zile-on-Guile, Reuben Thomas, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support,
Mike Gran <=
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Ian Price, 2013/03/25
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/24
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Ian Price, 2013/03/25
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/25
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Ian Price, 2013/03/25
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Gary V. Vaughan, 2013/03/25
- Re: [Bug-zile] Anniversary hack: Zile editor with Guile support, Nala Ginrut, 2013/03/25