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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy  wrote:
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>> Personally, what I'd really like is basic macro support, a Lisp mode,
>> and a shell mode. With those three things, most of my Emacs
>> functionality would be replicated.
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>
> There is (more or less) a shell mode already. (M-x shell)

No, no, I meant a regular mode, as in one I can go and edit .zaliases
in - with syntax highlighting and all. Shells are such that it might
be mildly useful to integrate M-x shell with it, but it wouldn't be as
big a win as with GHCi and Haskell mode.

>> Random polish is also quite as valuable as better internal docs; we
>> shouldn't be releasing half-broken stuff eg. M-x insertB was broken
>> but it seems no one noticed that until I began experimenting with the
>> M-x functions (trying to see why 'box replaceString' was failing).
>
> The interpreter is a damn ugly hack in general, I hope I can put
> students to work on it in the spring. :)
>
> Cheers,
> JP.

Ah, free developer labor... the best kind.

--
gwern

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