On 28 December 2011 04:57, Mike Gran <spk...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Hi Mike! >> >>> Over the USA holiday I started looking at the last C version of >>> Zile, which has its own toy Lisp interpreter. (Zile also >>> comes in a new Lua version!) I looks like it would be simple to >>> strip out that Zile Lisp and replace it with Guile Scheme. >>> But I don't think anyone has tried it. >> >> This sounds great! Another competitor for Gano and Guile-Emacs! ;-) >> >> Where’s the source? :-) > > I have a somewhat complete version at > https://github.com/spk121/zile > > There's a few regressions, and some problems with self-documentation, > and the build it still fragile, but, it basically works.
A couple more comments: 1. I'm very happy for Zile to be used as an experimental platform. It's increasingly obsolete as an actual editor (Emacs starts up fast and runs on most things), but I still maintain it and it has a test suite. Hence, it's good for making experiments that change the implementation but keep exactly the same behaviour. 2. The Lua version will shortly become the primary one. In a way this makes it easier to experiment on the C base, because the C will change increasingly slowly, but also do not neglect the possibilities of experimenting with the Lua version. It's much more convenient to change; Lua is happy to talk to C, so it's transitively happy to talk to other languages that talk to C; and finally, with respect to Guile in particular, don't forget that Guile has experimental Lua support, so there's an obvious way to short-circuit C. Anything I can do to assist experiments, and ESPECIALLY experiments aimed at improving GNU, please don't hesitate to write to help-zile or bug-zile. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
