On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@googlemail.com> wrote: > But do not bother to resend these ones. I will process them ASAP (which, as > you said, might be not too soon :-)
Oh, I'm in no hurry. :-) > It depends :-) I got as far as being able to link ECL into Emacs long long > time ago. This involved quite some heavy hacking of the program, to remove > its garbage collector and replace it with the Boehm-Weiser one, but it was > more or less a two nights job (the gc stuff), plus some additional work to > link ECL in. The advantage of ECL is that you do not need to replace all of > emacs with the lisp from scratch. You may let ECL manipulate emacs > structures and then gradually replace components. But first it would be > interesting to see whether there are good elisp compilers that work with > ECL. Hmmm. Maybe I should look at building an elisp compiler first, then. The thing that keeps preventing me from seriously pursuing this is actually character and string encodings. ECL is UTF-32 inside, isn't it? I don't even know where to start with porting a MULE-inside (X)Emacs to a Unicode-inside CL. In the XEmacs code base, we have probabilistic character encoding detectors, and so forth, all of which would have to be made to work in a Unicode world. It's so daunting that every time I think about just experimenting a little with putting a CL engine inside, I think about this, and change my mind. :-( -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
