Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Óscar Fuentes]

"John Wiegley" <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> That is, it might be a good idea to move some parts of Emacs core (which are
>> not system-dependent or performance-critical, e.g., parts of interactive
>> behavior like `self-insert-command' might fit here) from C to Elisp.
>
> If you can identify functions whose efficiency and behavior are not affected
> by moving them to Elisp, that would be a great idea.

One year or two ago, I found some obvious candidates and asked for
Stefan's opinion, who didn't show much interest. Can't locate the
message now.

Searching the C sources for small, loop-free functions marked as
interactive should not take much time.