On Mon, 23 May 2016, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > > Rainer Weikusat <rweiku...@talktalk.net> writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > Emacs is a somewhat old-fashioned/ traditional[*] Lisp implemenation > > > > [*] It doesn't support lexical scoping. > > That's what's old-fashioned about it. And there's some work on > changing this, but given the sheer amount of existig elisp code that > relies on no lexical scoping, even if only by accident, it'll > probably take decades to get there.
I doubt it will. Rainer hits the spot as this is the main single thing curbing the growth of Emacs on the long term. Personally and daydreaming, on the longlong term :^) I'd rather appreciate an effort that ditches elisp alltogether, learning from the goods and bads of Emacs, and builds something on a more modern LISP interpreter like Guile2 or even better Clojure. I'm a big fan of the latter actually, its a pity that most editors written in clj are proprietary. ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
