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Re: Question on implementing a Deuce command



In article <87bsjp640l.fsf@teonanacatl.andreas.org>, "Andreas Bogk"
<andreas@andreas.org> wrote:

> "Scott McKay" <swm@mediaone.net> writes:
> 
>> like gnuemacs.  It requires a bit more programming.  This deficiency is
>> mainly due to the schedule constraints we had -- we needed an editor
>> that did the job, more than we needed a Dylan reinvention of gnuemacs.
> 
> Oh, I think the world needs a Dylan reinvention of emacs.
> 
> I'm using emacs on a daily basis, even for reading mail and news. And
> I'm unhappy with a full-stop garbage collector, and an extension
> language that's slow, has no OO system, and doesn't even have lexical
> scoping.

Francois Pinard has written a utility that allows Emacs to be scripted
via Python, if you're jonesing and can't wait for Dylan-Emacs to come
down the pipeline.

http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/pymacs/pymacs-0.9.tar.gz

-- 
Barnabas T. Rumjuggler
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 -- Tim Peters



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