Emacsy: An Embeddable Toolkit of Emacs-like Functionality

An anonymous reader writes "Emacsy is 'a Guile library that provides Emacs-like facilities — keymaps, minibuffer, tab completion, recordable macros, and major/minor modes — for applications natively.' However, to my eyes, it looks more like an attempt to revive the development style done on Symbolics Lisp Machines that survives to some extent in Emacs. Might be a boon to Emacs users, but where's a comparable VIM alternative?" The skeptic in me asks what benefit this would have over just using libguile directly, and how it fits in with efforts to port Emacs itself to Guile and things like Englightenment's pluggable event loop. The example code seems to imply Emacs-like APIs will be used (despite not intending to replace parts of Emacs), even when better alternatives exist. Some of the proposed components seem orthogonal to existing interface toolkits; others seem to compete with components provided by various Free desktop environments.

Comments

Really, you call that "recording a macro"?

[SuperKendall]

You have no idea what REAL macro recording is. Sigh.

Tell me exactly, how do you record a search and replace based on text you found around the result of another search?

Or a search that gathers disparate results from multiple files and places the results in a extra comma delimited file?

Or a macro that executes a shell command and uses the output to open a third file?

And then how do you save the macros for later reuse and edit them?