Re: Fwd: Cocoa IDE v1 project

On Feb 13, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Laughing Water wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Ron Garret wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:
>>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Glen Foy wrote:
>>>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:11 AM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>>>>> The only way we can do this is if users like you tell us
>>>>> specifically what should be done to make it as good as MCL
>>>>
>>>> Porting Fred would be a good start.
>>>
>>> Better, a CL editor extending a general purpose base editor
>>> implemented in CLOS. That way, application developers can use the
>>> base to build other editors than for LISP. I've used Fred
>>> functionality as a foundation to build other editors used in my
>>> applications, specifically for text editing and XML editing. Doing
>>> this with Fred was possible but kind of a drag, because you'd  
>>> have to
>>> disable LISP functionality rather than just extend base editor
>>> classes. I know, this goes beyond building an IDE to provide  
>>> reusable
>>> functionality for applications, so it might be beyond the scope of
>>> the project, but may still be good practice.
>>
>> We could call is CLEmacs.
>>
> Could we find an excuse to call it CLImacs? Or was that taken a long
> time ago?

Taken. It's a Common LISP based editor written as a CLIM application.

-- Terje Norderhaug
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