"mystilleef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People only contribute to things they understand and appreciate. More > people would be writing Lisp libraries if it was worthwhile. > Apparently, it doesn't seem to be. A few years ago, I tried to write an > editor is Scheme. The experience was appalling. I was able to write a > fully functional prototype editor in less than a week in Python.
I remember thinking about writing an editor in Python. One of the editor functions I couldn't figure out how to implement was search-backward-regexp. Although the underlying regexp package in Python's standard library is capable of searching backwards, the Python lib does not export that feature to where Python code can use it. RFE #516762 about this has been open for almost 5 years. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
