Re: OT: ermacs?

[email protected] (Hal Snyder) writes:

> Much as I love emacs, sometimes it's nice to throw something out
> when it gets too big and encumbered. Lava flow antipattern, etc.
> And while I use gnus all day long to read email and news, it
> bothers me that the feel of the thing is essentially single-process.

Ask not what you can take from Emacs, ask what else you can put into
it!

Seriously, I used to want to replace Emacs, but now I think it's just
the best program in the world.

> What's the status of ermacs? Usable? Anyone hacking on it?
> Anyone using it?

Hasn't been touched in quite some time. It's quite usable, but feels
very under-featured compared with Emacs. Especially because I didn't
get around to adding incremental-search. I can recommend having a play
around with it from the Jungerl though :-)

The Ermacs design isn't really as nice as Emacs. I used an abstract
datatype for text, which makes it efficient but boringly
non-pattern-matchable, and generally avoided side-effects too much -
they are really convenient in text editing.

It was extremely fun to write though. There are so many interesting
design options in programmable text editors, I imagine it's a lot like
making a programming language or operating system. (Bet they're hard
to get right first time as well :-)

Actually, Ermacs is better than Emacs for editing really large
(10-100MB) files, so I have the occasional legitimate use for it
still..



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