Hi Gary (and Reuben) > From: Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org>
>I wonder whether you're aware of the recent change of tack in the Zile >project? For the moment all the exciting work is happening on the lua >branch: I've been following it from afar. Good stuff, but I haven't done much other than run it once or twice. >This is where I think it gets interesting for you, in that zlc, being >implemented in Lua too, is also eminently hackable, to the point where I >don't think it would be very much work at all to tweak a version that compiles >a Guile inspired scheme to Lua bytecodes (as opposed to Elisp -> Lua). > >Another goal of the reshuffle with Zile (the editor building toolkit) is to >make it easy to build experimental editors. Reuben has a very cut down fork >of Lua Zile that we plan to re-adopt back into the Zile distribution, and I >have a TextMate inspired syntax highlighting subproject, both of which will >shortly live alongside Zmacs with equal billing as examples of the kinds of >things Zile can help with. I wonder whether you'd be interested in >contributing >to a Guile Emacs inspired Zuile™ flavour? I could see how that could be fun, mapping Guile VM bytecodes to the Lua bytecodes. I wonder how compatible they might be? While I agree that might be a great job for somebody, I won't be able help out. I just can't condone the creation of yet another Scheme, even though your reasons for creating one are exciting. I guess, because Lua is such a great extension language, I don't see the value added in writing Zile extensions in anything other than Lua. Good Luck, Mike Gran
