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Re: GnuCash needs developers (esp for GTK/GNOME/Guile work).

Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:

> Greg Badros writes:
>  > Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>  > 
>  > <snip>
>  > 
>  > > Also, we've recently integrated Guile, and now we need to put it to
>  > > work.  For example, we want to add a Emacs-like "hook" system, an
>  > > engine for handling key-bindings, etc.  I haven't looked carefully
>  > > yet, but the Emacs source is probably a good source of ideas if not
>  > > actual code.
>  > 
>  > Scwm (The Scheme Configurable Window Manager) may be a better source of
>  > inspiration and code to borrow for GNUCash's guile-based hooks.  It too
>  > uses Guile, and does hooks similar to emacs.  Our event-binding system
>  > is undergoing a thorough redesigned, and will be reimplemented in the
>  > next two months-- my design is in the scwm-discuss mailing list archive
>  > on the web.  See:
> 
> Would those bindings also work on a virtual console ?

The specific implementation, no.  The design of the event system, much
would be applicable (especially the scheme hook-calling code).

Greg