I accidentally posted to individuals, not the list - damn Gmail! Brad
On 16/06/06, John (Eljay) Love-Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Emacs can do everything: it's an editor, an environment, an operating system (in the same sense that JVM is an operating system), and a religion. The only thing emacs lacks is a good editor. And now, emacs would have a fantastic editor: Vim!
I'm not sure if I am reading you right, but we are not aiming for any sort of Emacs compatibility. Slime is a debugger for Lisp, it has two parts a backend that runs in a Common Lisp image called Swank, and a frontend that runs in Emacs and is written in ELisp (Emacs' Lisp dialect). Our project is attempting to re-implement the frontend only, we will crib code heavily from the existing Slime frontend, but Elisp is not the same as CLisp so some stuff will need to be different. And of course, Slime relies heavily on Emacs specific drawing functions that won't port at all. Really the only relationship we have to Emacs is there is an existing code base with the functionality we need, and that existing base happens to run in Emacs. Cheers Brad
