Announcement:
Viper (Pre-Release C0 alfa): a remake of the classical Visual Display
Editor to replace Emacs and its Viper mode for me.
There is a bazaar repository (and other Launchpad goodies) at:
https://launchpad.net/viper-editor
System Dependencies: GNU Guile version 1.8.8 or compatible, stty version
8.23 or compatible from GNU coreutils
How to launch:
change to source directory and start guile
> (set! %load-path (cons "." %load-path)) ; add the current directory
to the load path
> (load "viper.scm")
(This software package currently is a pre-release and not usable as an
editor.)
Viper is written in Guile/GOOPS Scheme (Version 1.8) and contains the
following interesting parts which are in fluid development: a working
terminal application driver, extendible command line, simple screen
geometry.
(Future versions might rely on a cleaned up and modified version of
Guile 1.8 called Viper System Interface which will be available as a
separate package).
Goals:
AAA) a usable beta stage version with mostly complete editing features
1) a graphical user interface w/o new dependencies on existing toolkits
and widget sets
2) Viper System Interface
Other checkpoints on the interstellar road map: a port of org-mode
(compatible to Emacs23 org-mode), *NIX shell like features, Message
Passing Extension to GOOPS, the ability to spawn and control other
processes and projects to let the editor remain a simple editor.
