Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Tue Apr 8 06:44:58 EDT 2003


"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <ckea25d02 at sneakemail.com> writes:

> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> > However the reason most of the emacs modes, vim syntax definitions,
> > etc all don't quite work is they are regex based.  To really get
> > where the  structure editor needs to be would require a parser for
> > each item type.  Not a trivial task.
> 
> No, but it would be a much better foundation to build
> this stuff on, I think.

Has anyone reading this thread tried out leo?  I haven't, but I have
this feeling it might be interesting...

Cheers,
M.

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