Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Stefan Monnier]

> Of the many implementations that I see listed there, most are from the
> "let's rewrite Emacs (in our favorite language / better)" camp, and do
> include some (or most of) the editing primitives.  Of the others, I
> don't really see Emacs Lisp, but a glorified MacLISP with optional
> lexical binding and some Emacs Lisp-ish features.

I was thinking mostly of the "elisp.lisp" package by Sam Steingold (and
to a lesser extent librep).

> I suppose we're operating on different definitions of what constitutes
> "Emacs Lisp".

I know for a fact that I operate on several different definitions of
what constitutes "Elisp", yes  ;-)


        Stefan