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[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> emacs has no modes

Oooh religious war flame bait ;-)
Try typing Esc x x in emacs and tell me it has no modes...

But I know what you mean and to all intents and purposes 
its true.

> Personally I am used to Emacs commands, and I use jed, which 
> is a small editor 

Yes, good option, I forgot jed and it does do syntax 
highlighting too ISTR.

> I've heard that vi can actually be programmed in Python, 

vim has such a build but I've never usede it.

> heard rumours of the same for Emacs.

That would be much more difficult to do - unless somebody 
implemented a python intrerpreter in lisp... However its 
true the emacs folks are looking at replacing elisp with 
Guile/Common Lisp/Scheme but I haven't heard of any moves 
to a more radical departiure - it would just break too 
many lisp modules... 

Anyone got any more info on Python programmed emacs?

Alan G