Dear John,
I saw in the new modules listing that you recently posted
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Emacs-EPL-0.1
(a way to customize Emacs using perl rather than elisp.)
So I downloaded it from your home page.
But you say it requires Emacs 21 (not yet generally available).
Do you know when Emacs 21 will be released?
Is it stable enough for me to use on Windows NT in its current state?
What new features does it bring?
One possible reason I might want perlmacs would be to have minimal
munch semantics on certain searches, e.g. m/x*?/
but I hear this is planned to be built into Emacs 21,
and its about time.
I might want to be a guinea pig (beta tester) for perlmacs someday if there
are enough advantages.
Besides preferring Perl over Lisp, and the existence of
many perl modules, which are good reasons,
is there any major functionality that can be achieved
using perlmacs rather than emacs?
I recall RMS once stating that emacs was always going
to assume 32 bits for an int and a pointer. Now that
64 bit chips are here (sort of) and machines have
big physical memory I am wondering if this is still true.
One possible reason for perlmacs might be to let
me use Perl to have emacs run code that takes advantage
of 64 bit very large address.
If perlmacs is reasonably solid I'd love to hear abvout it at some future
Bostom PM meeting.
Steve
