Re: redisplay system of emacs

[Chong Yidong]

Paul R <address@hidden> writes:

> Since 80ies, many languages appeared, and many of them meet very well
> the requirements to extend a text editor. And because they are
> general-purpose language, they do much more. Designing a language,
> implementing it, maintaining it, providing a large and up to date
> standard library, is a project on its own. Scheme, Ruby or Python come
> to mind. The latters, at least, come with extensive support to parsing,
> file operations, networking and so on.

This has been discussed before ;-)

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-04/msg00030.html