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Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone
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edu500ac |
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Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone |
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Mon, 22 Aug 2016 14:32:35 -0700 (PDT) |
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Hi Rusi.
I don't want to improve on gnu-emacs. It is my favorite editor, and I think
that it has every feature that one may need in a text editor.
The main goal of the femtoemacs project is to provide a tiny emacs clone, for
opening small text files with minimum start up. Well, there are small clones
that are used to fulfill this niche. To name a few: Zile, jmacs, microEmacs,
etc. By the way, femtoemacs is based in one of these clones, to wit, atto and
Anthony's editor. What I miss in these clones is the possibility of extending
them in Lisp. This is my favorite feature in Emacs. Therefore, femtolisp is a
tiny Emacs that one can customize in Lisp. It is a replacement for Zile, jmacs
ou microEmacs, not for Emacs.
In many situations, I need a small editor for a mobile computer or for a cloud
computer. It would be great if I had emacs in such a situations, but emacs is
large big and difficult to install for this kind of applications. I could use
jmacs or Zile in my cloud computer, but in doing so I would give up Lisp
customization. With femtoemacs, I will keep lisp scripting. To make a long
story short, if you feel the need of using jmacs or microEmacs, then femtoemacs
may be a good replacement for these editors, since you can customize it in
femtolisp or scheme.
As for femtolisp, it was developed by Jeff Bezanson, the same person that
created the Julia language. It is one of the fastest interpreters around, and
can be made fully compatible with Scheme.
- A femtolisp based emacs clone, edu500ac, 2016/08/21
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Gene, 2016/08/22
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Rusi, 2016/08/22
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone,
edu500ac <=
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2016/08/22
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, James K. Lowden, 2016/08/23
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Yuri Khan, 2016/08/24
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, edu500ac, 2016/08/24
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/25
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Michael Albinus, 2016/08/26
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Stefan Monnier, 2016/08/26
- Re: A femtolisp based emacs clone, Ben Bacarisse, 2016/08/25