BillW@SU-SCORE.ARPA (William Chops Westfield) (03/31/85)
I have always felt that an implementation of EMACS written in FORTH would be 1) relatively easy, 2) relatively fast, 3) easilly extensible, and 4) truer to the philosphy of the orginal ITS/TENEX EMACS than the unix implementations that have been coming out... Unfortuantely, I have never had the time to get deeply enough into forth to start doing actual work in this area. The basic idea would be to define a data type BUFFER, and a function ^RMODE that would read characters from the keyboard and dispatch to a FORTH funtions for each character. There are some pretty good FORTH's for the C64, aren't there? BillW