larry@JPL-VLSI.ARPA (05/23/86)
Thanks to all those who answered my question about dynmamic rebinding of
key-strings to functions. To answer several questions:
I'm using several versions of EMACS as guides, trying to factor out the
useful approaches that I can translate to Ada. When I get a reasonably
working version I'll make it public. The first one will be a minimal
version very similar to David Conroy's MicroEMACS. It will compile and
run under both DEC Ada and Alsys IBM PC Ada.
A later version will resemble GNU EMACS, but I anticipate making one major
change. Rather than providing LisP to extend the core program, I'll use Ada.
I foresee using two approaches: a very simple subset interpreter built in,
and a procedure to simplify compiling and linking new commands into the
object code.
I've named this Ada version of EMACS Aemacs. (Pronounced emacs.) Please
don't use this name for anything else or I promise a horrible retaliation.
I'll name my program LOVE (Larry's Own Version of Emacs).
Larry @ jpl-vlsi.arpa