Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> One of the major lessons Emacs development learned since Emacs 20.1 is that
> raw bytes happen as part of text (a.k.a. "strings"), and therefore there's a
> need to support a mixture of these two in the same buffer/string. I think
> that's something Guile should support as well, as that will make it a more
> powerful and flexible extension language, able to deal with a wider range of
> real-life situations.

I'd like to second Eli's recommendation. In real life, encoding and decoding
of bytes to and from characters (codepoints) is never a simple problem. We do
need good flexibility here.

John