emacs on the JVM (was: What's so cool about Scheme?)

[Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>]

Geoffrey Knauth <geoff@knauth.org> writes:

> [ Aside-- Speaking of Emacs in other languages, I heard there was a
> Java Emacs (true?), and that reminds me that Guy Steele, in a standing
> room only MIT talk on Java years ago, challenged listeners to
> reimplement Emacs in Java.  It sounds as though that finally happened.
> Does it feel the same as the Emacs we all know? ]

It is a work in progress, not ready to replace C-based emacs for regular
use.  It's part of the Kawa project:

http://jemacs.sourceforge.net/