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Re: redisplay system of emacs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: redisplay system of emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:10:51 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) |
Paul R <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Eli,
>
>>> As many emacs youngsters, I feel that emacs really uses too much
>>> home-made code. Surprisingly, Emacs does not benefit that much from
>>> the free software ecosystem.
>
> Eli> That's a pretty general assessment. Any data points other than the
> Eli> display engine?
>
> Emacs Lisp and all the librairies that emacs hackers had to implement on
> top of it, IOW the 'emacs lisp standard library'.
>
> 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.
So where are all those powerful extensible text editors?
> 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.
So where are all those powerful extensible text editors?
--
David Kastrup
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, (continued)
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Lennart Borgman, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Miles Bader, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Miles Bader, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Paul R, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Paul R, 2010/01/29
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- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Chong Yidong, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/01/29
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Richard Stallman, 2010/01/30
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/01/30
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/30
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Óscar Fuentes, 2010/01/30
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/01/30
- Re: redisplay system of emacs, David Kastrup, 2010/01/31