Re: Are there plans for a multi-threaded Emacs?

[Nic Ferrier]

> So changing Emacs' scopes to lexical is a prerequisite for any
> meaningful attempt at multithreading, anyway.

Except that it's more important that Emacs uses dynamic scope than
multi-threading. Dynamic scope is _one_ of the reasons Emacs has been
sucessfull. 

rms wrote a paper about the design of Emacs which, I think,
succesfully justifies the choice of dynamic scope:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html


Nic