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bug#41985: ELisp
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Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#41985: ELisp |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 06:48:41 -0700 |
tags 41985 + notabug wontfix
close 41985
thanks
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> In article <mailman.211.1592754723.2574.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> you wrote:
>> Hi GNU Emacs Team,
>
>> I wonder if the GNU Emacs Team had thought of replacing the ELisp
>> scripting language with that from newLisp.?
>
> Hardly.
>
>> I took a look at newLisp documentation and must say its very easy.
>
> But it won't include facilities for manipulating editing things like
> buffers. It would take a lot of work to replicate these in newLisp.
>
> Also, there's around 1.7 million lines of Emacs Lisp code in the Emacs
> core. That's a lot of code to have to convert.
It is very unlikely that we will rewrite Emacs in newLisp.
I'm therefore closing this bug.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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