Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[David Kastrup]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> 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.

Sure, but then Emacs strings cannot be manipulated using GUILE string
functions.  Same with Emacs buffers (which otherwise could be something
like random-access string ports).

>> 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.

What about libiconv?  It would appear that parts of it are in the GUILE
source tree (admittedly, under GNU control).

-- 
David Kastrup