On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:49:38PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Bernard Hurley <bern...@marcade.biz> writes: > > > On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > >> > >> >> [1] why oh why does the main GNU editor not use the "official > >> >> extension language for the GNU operating system"?? > >> > > >> > Same reason why its keyboard shortcuts are only so-so compatible with > >> > CUA and/or GNOME: its development was started more than 30 years ago, > >> > when nobody had ever heard of Guile. > >> > >> Note, however, one of this year's Google-Summer-of-Code projects is > >> integrating guile into Emacs; the idea is to use guile as the > >> interpreter for Emacs Lisp. At the same time, Scheme will be > >> available for free. > >> > > > > That sounds interesting. Personally I would rather see Emacs > > re-implemented using Common Lisp instead of Emacs Lisp. > > <URL:http://common-lisp.net/project/climacs/> is one such thing, and the > web site lists a number of other ports that failed to reach significant > mindshare. > > Common Lisp is far too big to make sense as an extension language. >
True but I use the stump window manager so I have SBCL running anyway. Climacs doesn't seem to have progressed since 2008 and is nowhere near a drop-in replacement for Emacs. Anyway maybe this is getting a little far from Lilypond! Cheers, Bernard _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
