Re: [Texmacs-dev] CLisp plugin

[Joris van der Hoeven]

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Michael Graffam wrote:
> I've just gotten CLisp working as a plugin to TeXmacs. I'm now in the
> process of writing some lisp functions to do useful things in TeXmacs.
>
> I have some Lisp code for manipulating trees. I'm going to write a
> function to display these trees nicely via TeXmacs. I'll also write
> functions to allow Lisp to generate TeXmacs markup.
>
> Any Lisp/Scheme programmers out there with some ideas of how this should
> be done?

Displaying trees should be easy by using the "scheme" protocol and
the TREE tag. More generally, the Scheme expressions for TeXmacs trees
should have immediate analogues in Lisp. So compatability of the data
formats should be easy too.

The harder part would be to use Lisp as a real extension language,
because this presumes that Lisp knows about the existing Scheme
functions (and types?) and vice versa. Making this possible is one
of our more long term projects, and I think that some occasional
discussions on this topic already took place on this mailing list
in the past (Perl and Python).