On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:59:28PM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: > EMACS has a lot of wired-in assumptions about how editors are supposed to > work that make implementing a true WordStar compatibility mode impossible > [...] > I'd be astounded if someone were to make an EMACS mode that acted like > ISPF, and suspect that it'd be no less complex than writing it from the > ground up in C.
On the contrary, I'd suspect that it would be less complex than viper-mode (which is itself less than 10k lines of elisp according to sloccount). There is very little in emacs that is "wired-in", and this is certainly not impossible. Whether it is worthwhile is another matter. -- - mdz
