Re: Emacs with Guile

[Keisuke Nishida <kxn30 at po dot cwru dot edu>]

Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj@mdj.nada.kth.se> writes:

> Ken Raeburn has been working on an Emacs port to Guile.  Is it
> possible that you could work together?

That will be certainly great.

> I understand that your goal may not be to replace the ELisp
> interpreter, but your work is certainly a good way to approach the
> Guile Emacs task.  It is probably better to be able to successively
> move to full Guile capability within Emacs than to take bigger steps.
> (While saying this, I'm not entirely up-to-date regarding the Guile
> Emacs project.)

My motivation is to use Guile's advanced features for Emacs programming.
To replace the Elisp interpreter is not my actual goal, but I do want to
write new Emacs programs by using Guile.  So keeping both Lisp and Scheme
interpreters simultaneously is a better idea.

The only disadvantage of using Guile Scheme is it is not well readable/
writable compared with Elisp in the sense that Elisp provides many
interactive help (e.g., apropos) and evaluation (e.g., eval-last-sexp),
whereas those of Guile's are less convenient.  So I want to implement
the Guile version anyway.