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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.
Hmmz, actually, despite being modded down, I also think VS is the best IDE. Maybe because I know it best, but I would love a port to linux. It's a fast IDE that gets shit done. I did skip on 2010 though, but 2008 is my weapon of choice. It's actually overkill for the coding I do, but I prefer it any time over vi, emacs, eclipse or monodevelop. (ah yes, this linux-user does .net, please don't hurt me to bad!)