Re: Emacs-like file buffers

2006-05-12 Thread Rob Browning
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My impression was that Guile just uses whatever library it finds on >> the system (if any), and that the library found might or might not be >> POSIX compliant. If that's correct, then I'd much rather have an >>

Re: Emacs-like file buffers

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Ryde
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - How is the addition of support for Unicode likely to affect any > regular expression or buffer work? Oh, I see what you mean. Yes, no doubt a utf-8 aware regexp library would be needed. To turn around what I said about glibc, glibc in the righ

Re: Emacs-like file buffers

2006-05-08 Thread Rob Browning
Kevin Ryde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> I would really like to see Guile provide a fixed regular expression >> format, one that doesn't vary depending on what the build platform has >> available. Without that, you cannot write scripts that are porta

Re: Emacs-like file buffers

2006-05-08 Thread Kevin Ryde
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would really like to see Guile provide a fixed regular expression > format, one that doesn't vary depending on what the build platform has > available. Without that, you cannot write scripts that are portable, > at least not with respect to regular ex

Re: Emacs-like file buffers

2006-05-07 Thread Rob Browning
"Jason Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Under the "Cool Ideas" section of the Guile website, Emacs-like > buffers are mentioned. I'm thinking this would be a really useful > library, even independent of Guile. Once such a library is built, > then extending it into guile shouldn't be too much e