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The only ports that are going to actually get emacs users are ones that can eval elisp.
However, good luck with this! It's like Yi.. could turn out great, or could turn out to just be a neat small project :)
[1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gs...
I wonder if the guys that use emacs will really want to use another version of it running on the JVM. I get this feeling that most of them despise the JVM, and the guys who generally use JVM are eclipse/netbeans guys. Sure there will be some people that don't fit in this category. Though, it seems like the OP is trying to fix something that isn't broken. Anyways, it will be a great learning experience.
I do like this guy's goal of making Emacs 24 the target and shedding akk the baggage of the earlier versions.
I wonder if the guys that use emacs will really want to use another version of it running on the JVM. I get this feeling that most of them despise the JVM, and the guys who generally use JVM are eclipse/netbeans guys. Sure there will be some people that don't fit in this category. Though, it seems like the OP is trying to fix something that isn't broken. Anyways, it will be a great learning experience.
Why not just write a similar editor, with same shortcuts, rewritten modules/modes etc, but with new architecture and paradigms?
I think this is something that light table is in a better position to pull off. It's new, doesn't have to worry about compatibility, and the worst case is you have to configure it with javascript (if I recall correctly) and not a lisp. Whether or not it can, or even wants to, live up to that, is another matter entirely. But it'd be great if it does.
I mean, if the Eclipse project started today, you could say similar things about it. I am sure there exist emacs users who moved to Eclipse. But...
If this were a Kickstarter, I'd buy the top package. This is something I've wanted for a long while. Good luck!
I have shake-n-bake modules for virtually any language or use-case you could want.
https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d
If you have any requests, I can probably bake it up. Included is the awesome Ensime package for Scala and Shime (Slime) a repl for Haskell. See the link to poke around for other things.
I recently restructured my dotfiles, but I once used my git repo to teach people at a Clojure meetup in SF how to get rolling with Emacs + Slime + Swank + Clojure.
There are two parts to this. First, pure learning and fun - even if it goes nowhere. Second, "Extensible" is the keyword here. The goal is to find the right balance between backwards compatibility (Emacs Lisp) and forward extensibility (Clojure / JVM), so I'm not interested in writing a new text editor from scratch.
I did consider Kickstarter (currently self funded), but felt I needed something running first.
Is this a serious project meant for general use? If so, what problem is it solving? What's the advantage over regular Emacs?
Author here. Thanks for the support everyone! Seems like there is an interest in such a thing, so I'll better start hacking on this again. There are two parts to this. First, pure learning and fun - even if it goes nowhere. Second, "Extensible" is the keyword here. The goal is to find the right balance between backwards compatibility (Emacs Lisp) and forward extensibility (Clojure / JVM), so I'm not interested in wri…
I will be watching this project closely.
If this were a Kickstarter, I'd buy the top package. This is something I've wanted for a long while. Good luck!
For anybody who codes in anything other than Clojure (although I have that too), you can partake of a 40,000 LOC elisp dotfiles repo. I have shake-n-bake modules for virtually any language or use-case you could want. https://github.com/bitemyapp/dotfiles/tree/master/.emacs.d If you have any requests, I can probably bake it up. Included is the awesome Ensime package for Scala and Shime (Slime) a repl for Haskell. See…