Re: GSoC: Emacs Lisp support for GNU Guile

[Mike Gran]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 16:15 -0700, Andy Wingo wrote:

Andy et al-

> I keep thinking that it should be possible to write some kind of C shim
> so that Guile could implement the Emacs C "API". That way we keep the
> existing C code working, we keep the fine-tuned implementations and
> semantics, and we can move on from "re-implementing" to "implementing"
> -- e.g. adding to Emacs instead of just reproducing it. 

FWIW, In the context of a GSoC project, it would be fairly easy to
create a testbed for Emacs Lisp in Scheme by shimming GNU Zile.  Zile
is a minimalist Emacs clone with a Lisp interpreter that, at first
glance, would be simple to modify for Guile.

-Mike Gran