On 07/03/2015 01:11 PM, William G Hatch wrote: > I would also love to see a new emacs based on Racket. Is rmacs by Tony > Garnock-Jones intended to be a small project or is he meaning for it to > grow to be a serious contender with emacs, vim, etc?
At the moment, it's just for my own edification. My aim is to get it into suitable shape for me to use it for day to day editing, and then see how I go. Currently missing before that becomes the case (using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoSCoW_method): M - move by words M - move by s-expression structure S - syntax highlighting for Racket code (half-implemented) C - something dired-ish C - isearch (ordinary search and regexp-search is already there) I want to explore it as a way of getting a Racket REPL on steroids. I imagine firing up Racket, getting a deceptively normal-looking terminal-style REPL, working for a bit (with rich, full-emacs-style functionality available at the REPL), and then deciding "no, I want a fullscreen editor", pressing a hotkey, and "promoting" the REPL into a full rmacs session with multiple windows, buffers etc. I want to explore some of the CLIMish "presentation" ideas for the REPL. I'm also interested in reloading/hot-swapping of code and state. I've been experimenting with this for web apps [1] and it'd be interesting to support it as part of the IDE-like functionality in rmacs. HOWEVER, I'm a PhD student and all this depends on what little spare time I find for it. Shorter me: it's a small hobby project ;-) Tony [1] https://github.com/tonyg/racket-reloadable#readme -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
