Could Emacs be rewritten in Python?

[Martin v. Löwis]

pobrien at orbtech.com (Patrick K. O'Brien) writes:

> No, I really want something very similar to Emacs, not just
> "comparable in power."  The reason is that there is a ton of elisp
> code out there, including most of Emacs itself, that could be
> translated to work with PyAlaMode.  

In that case, you really should target a completely automated
translation process. Nobody will port ten thousands of lines of elisp
to Python manually.

Regards,
Martin