Re: Emacs contributions, C and Lisp

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 16.02.2014 19:50, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> These problems exist in Lisp as they do (or don't) in C, as far as
> Emacs is concerned.  E.g., see the latest discussion of crypto
> features.

I'd say in Lisp they exist to a considerably lesser degree. And if 
someone is going to implement crypto support, I'd expect them to be 
familiar with C anyway.

> See the other mail for what I (and Jorgen) had in mind.  I don't
> think we have anything like that in Emacs, even with CEDET.  ECB
> (which isn't bundled) is the only thing that comes close, but IMO we
> should have had this in Emacs core for a long time.

This looks like something that might require fancier rendering on the 
fringe or a nearby area.

Layered rendering on the fringe is something we could use in diff-hl as 
well: https://github.com/dgutov/diff-hl/issues/16

> > Maybe someone who programs in languages it supports well (such as
> > yourself?) can write up a short "quickstart" text, or at least formulate
> > the requirements for one.
>
> I certainly hope so.

*chuckle*

> > not everything has to be bundled with Emacs.
>
> Things that we consider central and important should be.

Guess I agree that company-the-framework would work better bundled.

Support for different languages might come separately, though.

> CEDET has COGRE that supports this already, at least according to
> http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ (search for "UML").  Somewhat clunky and
> based on "ASCII art", though.

Yes, COGRE could be the instrument, but we still need information to use 
it on, and language-specific tools are most likely the way to go.