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Re: Emacs with Guile


Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:

> Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu> writes:
> 
> > I'm trying embedding Guile in Emacs.  This is not Guile-based Emacs,
> > but rather Emacs with Guile.  That is, Emacs now has both Lisp and
> > Scheme interpreters independently; programmers can write their code
> > either in Emacs Lisp or in Guile Scheme, or even in both.  My patch
> > provides some means to exchange objects between Lisp and Scheme.
> 
> This is one great hack!
> 
> One thought occured to me: maybe it is possible to increase the degree
> of integration by rewriting the Elisp interpreter to use the Guile
> data types directly.  That is, pairs, symbols, numbers, etc are
> already there, and buffers, windows, etc get a thin smob layer.

Yeah, this is exactly the right strategy for integrating Guile in
Emacs.  Step by step: First put Guile in Emacs, then successively move
over weight towards Guile.  (Using Guile datatypes is one big step,
though.)

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